RULES 6 posters 5 points each Full House ensures another 10 points
SCOREShelliphellip
SHORTLISTEDWRITTEN
LIST ALL THE PLAYERS WHO HAVE BEEN DEFEATED BY ROGER FEDERER IN GRAND SLAM FINALS
The list includes 11 persons in total
3 points per person
7 bonus for a full house
ANSWER Mark Philippoussis Marat Safin Andy Roddick Lleyton Hewitt Andre Agassi Marcos Bhagdatis Rafael Nadal Fernando Gonzalez Novak Djokovic Andy Murray Robin Soderling
SCOREShelliphellip
MIXED BAGCLOCKWISE (24 QUESTIONS)
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
1 This fascinating memoir penned by his daughter Rakita Nanda and told in
Xrsquos words reveals the story behind the man people loved to hate Read about his memorable journey from his time as a young boy who used to wait outside the Clarks Hotel in Shimla to catch a glimpse of the film stars who stayed there to being mobbed by fans at the same hotel many years later The man was once reviled by the public for his lecherous onscreen avatar but was known within the film industry for his couplets which Dharmendra christened X Awargi
What is the name of the memoir ( A 6 word answer is needed)
2 How can you connect the crest of the club below with a 1834 book on fairy
tales by Alexander Pushkin which was inspired from sections of ldquoTales of Alhambrardquo by Washington Irving
THE GOLDEN COCKEREL
3
This natural disaster on April 7th 1906 was a principal reason for a colossal loss incurred by Italy as it had to divert its funds for the rehabilitation of Naples and its people What loss did Italy suffer
THE FOURTH OLYMPICS SHIFTED FROM ROME TO LONDON
4 THIS PARTICULAR TUNE HAS SHADES OF IQBALrsquoS ldquoSARE JAHAN SE ACHHArdquo THIS WAS DONE ON SPECIAL REQUEST OF INDIRA GANDHI WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMPOSITION AND WHO WERE THE COMPOSERS
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2408498
DOORDARSHAN ORIGINAL SIGNATURE TUNE PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR USTAD ALI AHMED HUSSAIN KHAN
5 This legend was described by C
B Fry as ldquoAtlasrdquo for the sheer burden that he had to bear for his team while batting at one-down He is till date the only test cricketer to be born in the country X His father was working at the construction site in 1909 when he was born Later they immigrated to Jamaica Who is this legend and which country
GEORGE HEADLEY PANAMA
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
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IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
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eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
ROUNDS
Round 1 Femme Fatale
Round 2 Shortlisted
Round 3 Mixed Bag Clockwise- 24 questions
Round 4 Photo Memory
Round 5 LVC
Round 6 Mixed Bag Anti-clockwise- 24 questions
FEMME FATALEA MINIMALISTIC APPROACH
RULES 6 posters 5 points each Full House ensures another 10 points
SCOREShelliphellip
SHORTLISTEDWRITTEN
LIST ALL THE PLAYERS WHO HAVE BEEN DEFEATED BY ROGER FEDERER IN GRAND SLAM FINALS
The list includes 11 persons in total
3 points per person
7 bonus for a full house
ANSWER Mark Philippoussis Marat Safin Andy Roddick Lleyton Hewitt Andre Agassi Marcos Bhagdatis Rafael Nadal Fernando Gonzalez Novak Djokovic Andy Murray Robin Soderling
SCOREShelliphellip
MIXED BAGCLOCKWISE (24 QUESTIONS)
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
1 This fascinating memoir penned by his daughter Rakita Nanda and told in
Xrsquos words reveals the story behind the man people loved to hate Read about his memorable journey from his time as a young boy who used to wait outside the Clarks Hotel in Shimla to catch a glimpse of the film stars who stayed there to being mobbed by fans at the same hotel many years later The man was once reviled by the public for his lecherous onscreen avatar but was known within the film industry for his couplets which Dharmendra christened X Awargi
What is the name of the memoir ( A 6 word answer is needed)
2 How can you connect the crest of the club below with a 1834 book on fairy
tales by Alexander Pushkin which was inspired from sections of ldquoTales of Alhambrardquo by Washington Irving
THE GOLDEN COCKEREL
3
This natural disaster on April 7th 1906 was a principal reason for a colossal loss incurred by Italy as it had to divert its funds for the rehabilitation of Naples and its people What loss did Italy suffer
THE FOURTH OLYMPICS SHIFTED FROM ROME TO LONDON
4 THIS PARTICULAR TUNE HAS SHADES OF IQBALrsquoS ldquoSARE JAHAN SE ACHHArdquo THIS WAS DONE ON SPECIAL REQUEST OF INDIRA GANDHI WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMPOSITION AND WHO WERE THE COMPOSERS
>
2408498
DOORDARSHAN ORIGINAL SIGNATURE TUNE PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR USTAD ALI AHMED HUSSAIN KHAN
5 This legend was described by C
B Fry as ldquoAtlasrdquo for the sheer burden that he had to bear for his team while batting at one-down He is till date the only test cricketer to be born in the country X His father was working at the construction site in 1909 when he was born Later they immigrated to Jamaica Who is this legend and which country
GEORGE HEADLEY PANAMA
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
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IndiaMp3com
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CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
FEMME FATALEA MINIMALISTIC APPROACH
RULES 6 posters 5 points each Full House ensures another 10 points
SCOREShelliphellip
SHORTLISTEDWRITTEN
LIST ALL THE PLAYERS WHO HAVE BEEN DEFEATED BY ROGER FEDERER IN GRAND SLAM FINALS
The list includes 11 persons in total
3 points per person
7 bonus for a full house
ANSWER Mark Philippoussis Marat Safin Andy Roddick Lleyton Hewitt Andre Agassi Marcos Bhagdatis Rafael Nadal Fernando Gonzalez Novak Djokovic Andy Murray Robin Soderling
SCOREShelliphellip
MIXED BAGCLOCKWISE (24 QUESTIONS)
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
1 This fascinating memoir penned by his daughter Rakita Nanda and told in
Xrsquos words reveals the story behind the man people loved to hate Read about his memorable journey from his time as a young boy who used to wait outside the Clarks Hotel in Shimla to catch a glimpse of the film stars who stayed there to being mobbed by fans at the same hotel many years later The man was once reviled by the public for his lecherous onscreen avatar but was known within the film industry for his couplets which Dharmendra christened X Awargi
What is the name of the memoir ( A 6 word answer is needed)
2 How can you connect the crest of the club below with a 1834 book on fairy
tales by Alexander Pushkin which was inspired from sections of ldquoTales of Alhambrardquo by Washington Irving
THE GOLDEN COCKEREL
3
This natural disaster on April 7th 1906 was a principal reason for a colossal loss incurred by Italy as it had to divert its funds for the rehabilitation of Naples and its people What loss did Italy suffer
THE FOURTH OLYMPICS SHIFTED FROM ROME TO LONDON
4 THIS PARTICULAR TUNE HAS SHADES OF IQBALrsquoS ldquoSARE JAHAN SE ACHHArdquo THIS WAS DONE ON SPECIAL REQUEST OF INDIRA GANDHI WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMPOSITION AND WHO WERE THE COMPOSERS
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2408498
DOORDARSHAN ORIGINAL SIGNATURE TUNE PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR USTAD ALI AHMED HUSSAIN KHAN
5 This legend was described by C
B Fry as ldquoAtlasrdquo for the sheer burden that he had to bear for his team while batting at one-down He is till date the only test cricketer to be born in the country X His father was working at the construction site in 1909 when he was born Later they immigrated to Jamaica Who is this legend and which country
GEORGE HEADLEY PANAMA
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
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IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
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eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
RULES 6 posters 5 points each Full House ensures another 10 points
SCOREShelliphellip
SHORTLISTEDWRITTEN
LIST ALL THE PLAYERS WHO HAVE BEEN DEFEATED BY ROGER FEDERER IN GRAND SLAM FINALS
The list includes 11 persons in total
3 points per person
7 bonus for a full house
ANSWER Mark Philippoussis Marat Safin Andy Roddick Lleyton Hewitt Andre Agassi Marcos Bhagdatis Rafael Nadal Fernando Gonzalez Novak Djokovic Andy Murray Robin Soderling
SCOREShelliphellip
MIXED BAGCLOCKWISE (24 QUESTIONS)
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
1 This fascinating memoir penned by his daughter Rakita Nanda and told in
Xrsquos words reveals the story behind the man people loved to hate Read about his memorable journey from his time as a young boy who used to wait outside the Clarks Hotel in Shimla to catch a glimpse of the film stars who stayed there to being mobbed by fans at the same hotel many years later The man was once reviled by the public for his lecherous onscreen avatar but was known within the film industry for his couplets which Dharmendra christened X Awargi
What is the name of the memoir ( A 6 word answer is needed)
2 How can you connect the crest of the club below with a 1834 book on fairy
tales by Alexander Pushkin which was inspired from sections of ldquoTales of Alhambrardquo by Washington Irving
THE GOLDEN COCKEREL
3
This natural disaster on April 7th 1906 was a principal reason for a colossal loss incurred by Italy as it had to divert its funds for the rehabilitation of Naples and its people What loss did Italy suffer
THE FOURTH OLYMPICS SHIFTED FROM ROME TO LONDON
4 THIS PARTICULAR TUNE HAS SHADES OF IQBALrsquoS ldquoSARE JAHAN SE ACHHArdquo THIS WAS DONE ON SPECIAL REQUEST OF INDIRA GANDHI WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMPOSITION AND WHO WERE THE COMPOSERS
>
2408498
DOORDARSHAN ORIGINAL SIGNATURE TUNE PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR USTAD ALI AHMED HUSSAIN KHAN
5 This legend was described by C
B Fry as ldquoAtlasrdquo for the sheer burden that he had to bear for his team while batting at one-down He is till date the only test cricketer to be born in the country X His father was working at the construction site in 1909 when he was born Later they immigrated to Jamaica Who is this legend and which country
GEORGE HEADLEY PANAMA
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
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CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
SCOREShelliphellip
SHORTLISTEDWRITTEN
LIST ALL THE PLAYERS WHO HAVE BEEN DEFEATED BY ROGER FEDERER IN GRAND SLAM FINALS
The list includes 11 persons in total
3 points per person
7 bonus for a full house
ANSWER Mark Philippoussis Marat Safin Andy Roddick Lleyton Hewitt Andre Agassi Marcos Bhagdatis Rafael Nadal Fernando Gonzalez Novak Djokovic Andy Murray Robin Soderling
SCOREShelliphellip
MIXED BAGCLOCKWISE (24 QUESTIONS)
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
1 This fascinating memoir penned by his daughter Rakita Nanda and told in
Xrsquos words reveals the story behind the man people loved to hate Read about his memorable journey from his time as a young boy who used to wait outside the Clarks Hotel in Shimla to catch a glimpse of the film stars who stayed there to being mobbed by fans at the same hotel many years later The man was once reviled by the public for his lecherous onscreen avatar but was known within the film industry for his couplets which Dharmendra christened X Awargi
What is the name of the memoir ( A 6 word answer is needed)
2 How can you connect the crest of the club below with a 1834 book on fairy
tales by Alexander Pushkin which was inspired from sections of ldquoTales of Alhambrardquo by Washington Irving
THE GOLDEN COCKEREL
3
This natural disaster on April 7th 1906 was a principal reason for a colossal loss incurred by Italy as it had to divert its funds for the rehabilitation of Naples and its people What loss did Italy suffer
THE FOURTH OLYMPICS SHIFTED FROM ROME TO LONDON
4 THIS PARTICULAR TUNE HAS SHADES OF IQBALrsquoS ldquoSARE JAHAN SE ACHHArdquo THIS WAS DONE ON SPECIAL REQUEST OF INDIRA GANDHI WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMPOSITION AND WHO WERE THE COMPOSERS
>
2408498
DOORDARSHAN ORIGINAL SIGNATURE TUNE PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR USTAD ALI AHMED HUSSAIN KHAN
5 This legend was described by C
B Fry as ldquoAtlasrdquo for the sheer burden that he had to bear for his team while batting at one-down He is till date the only test cricketer to be born in the country X His father was working at the construction site in 1909 when he was born Later they immigrated to Jamaica Who is this legend and which country
GEORGE HEADLEY PANAMA
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
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CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
SHORTLISTEDWRITTEN
LIST ALL THE PLAYERS WHO HAVE BEEN DEFEATED BY ROGER FEDERER IN GRAND SLAM FINALS
The list includes 11 persons in total
3 points per person
7 bonus for a full house
ANSWER Mark Philippoussis Marat Safin Andy Roddick Lleyton Hewitt Andre Agassi Marcos Bhagdatis Rafael Nadal Fernando Gonzalez Novak Djokovic Andy Murray Robin Soderling
SCOREShelliphellip
MIXED BAGCLOCKWISE (24 QUESTIONS)
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
1 This fascinating memoir penned by his daughter Rakita Nanda and told in
Xrsquos words reveals the story behind the man people loved to hate Read about his memorable journey from his time as a young boy who used to wait outside the Clarks Hotel in Shimla to catch a glimpse of the film stars who stayed there to being mobbed by fans at the same hotel many years later The man was once reviled by the public for his lecherous onscreen avatar but was known within the film industry for his couplets which Dharmendra christened X Awargi
What is the name of the memoir ( A 6 word answer is needed)
2 How can you connect the crest of the club below with a 1834 book on fairy
tales by Alexander Pushkin which was inspired from sections of ldquoTales of Alhambrardquo by Washington Irving
THE GOLDEN COCKEREL
3
This natural disaster on April 7th 1906 was a principal reason for a colossal loss incurred by Italy as it had to divert its funds for the rehabilitation of Naples and its people What loss did Italy suffer
THE FOURTH OLYMPICS SHIFTED FROM ROME TO LONDON
4 THIS PARTICULAR TUNE HAS SHADES OF IQBALrsquoS ldquoSARE JAHAN SE ACHHArdquo THIS WAS DONE ON SPECIAL REQUEST OF INDIRA GANDHI WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMPOSITION AND WHO WERE THE COMPOSERS
>
2408498
DOORDARSHAN ORIGINAL SIGNATURE TUNE PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR USTAD ALI AHMED HUSSAIN KHAN
5 This legend was described by C
B Fry as ldquoAtlasrdquo for the sheer burden that he had to bear for his team while batting at one-down He is till date the only test cricketer to be born in the country X His father was working at the construction site in 1909 when he was born Later they immigrated to Jamaica Who is this legend and which country
GEORGE HEADLEY PANAMA
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
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eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
LIST ALL THE PLAYERS WHO HAVE BEEN DEFEATED BY ROGER FEDERER IN GRAND SLAM FINALS
The list includes 11 persons in total
3 points per person
7 bonus for a full house
ANSWER Mark Philippoussis Marat Safin Andy Roddick Lleyton Hewitt Andre Agassi Marcos Bhagdatis Rafael Nadal Fernando Gonzalez Novak Djokovic Andy Murray Robin Soderling
SCOREShelliphellip
MIXED BAGCLOCKWISE (24 QUESTIONS)
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
1 This fascinating memoir penned by his daughter Rakita Nanda and told in
Xrsquos words reveals the story behind the man people loved to hate Read about his memorable journey from his time as a young boy who used to wait outside the Clarks Hotel in Shimla to catch a glimpse of the film stars who stayed there to being mobbed by fans at the same hotel many years later The man was once reviled by the public for his lecherous onscreen avatar but was known within the film industry for his couplets which Dharmendra christened X Awargi
What is the name of the memoir ( A 6 word answer is needed)
2 How can you connect the crest of the club below with a 1834 book on fairy
tales by Alexander Pushkin which was inspired from sections of ldquoTales of Alhambrardquo by Washington Irving
THE GOLDEN COCKEREL
3
This natural disaster on April 7th 1906 was a principal reason for a colossal loss incurred by Italy as it had to divert its funds for the rehabilitation of Naples and its people What loss did Italy suffer
THE FOURTH OLYMPICS SHIFTED FROM ROME TO LONDON
4 THIS PARTICULAR TUNE HAS SHADES OF IQBALrsquoS ldquoSARE JAHAN SE ACHHArdquo THIS WAS DONE ON SPECIAL REQUEST OF INDIRA GANDHI WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMPOSITION AND WHO WERE THE COMPOSERS
>
2408498
DOORDARSHAN ORIGINAL SIGNATURE TUNE PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR USTAD ALI AHMED HUSSAIN KHAN
5 This legend was described by C
B Fry as ldquoAtlasrdquo for the sheer burden that he had to bear for his team while batting at one-down He is till date the only test cricketer to be born in the country X His father was working at the construction site in 1909 when he was born Later they immigrated to Jamaica Who is this legend and which country
GEORGE HEADLEY PANAMA
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
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eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
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2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
The list includes 11 persons in total
3 points per person
7 bonus for a full house
ANSWER Mark Philippoussis Marat Safin Andy Roddick Lleyton Hewitt Andre Agassi Marcos Bhagdatis Rafael Nadal Fernando Gonzalez Novak Djokovic Andy Murray Robin Soderling
SCOREShelliphellip
MIXED BAGCLOCKWISE (24 QUESTIONS)
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
1 This fascinating memoir penned by his daughter Rakita Nanda and told in
Xrsquos words reveals the story behind the man people loved to hate Read about his memorable journey from his time as a young boy who used to wait outside the Clarks Hotel in Shimla to catch a glimpse of the film stars who stayed there to being mobbed by fans at the same hotel many years later The man was once reviled by the public for his lecherous onscreen avatar but was known within the film industry for his couplets which Dharmendra christened X Awargi
What is the name of the memoir ( A 6 word answer is needed)
2 How can you connect the crest of the club below with a 1834 book on fairy
tales by Alexander Pushkin which was inspired from sections of ldquoTales of Alhambrardquo by Washington Irving
THE GOLDEN COCKEREL
3
This natural disaster on April 7th 1906 was a principal reason for a colossal loss incurred by Italy as it had to divert its funds for the rehabilitation of Naples and its people What loss did Italy suffer
THE FOURTH OLYMPICS SHIFTED FROM ROME TO LONDON
4 THIS PARTICULAR TUNE HAS SHADES OF IQBALrsquoS ldquoSARE JAHAN SE ACHHArdquo THIS WAS DONE ON SPECIAL REQUEST OF INDIRA GANDHI WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMPOSITION AND WHO WERE THE COMPOSERS
>
2408498
DOORDARSHAN ORIGINAL SIGNATURE TUNE PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR USTAD ALI AHMED HUSSAIN KHAN
5 This legend was described by C
B Fry as ldquoAtlasrdquo for the sheer burden that he had to bear for his team while batting at one-down He is till date the only test cricketer to be born in the country X His father was working at the construction site in 1909 when he was born Later they immigrated to Jamaica Who is this legend and which country
GEORGE HEADLEY PANAMA
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
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Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
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eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
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Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
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answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
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2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
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Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
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For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
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18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
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24
Slide 92
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Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
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Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
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The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
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Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
ANSWER Mark Philippoussis Marat Safin Andy Roddick Lleyton Hewitt Andre Agassi Marcos Bhagdatis Rafael Nadal Fernando Gonzalez Novak Djokovic Andy Murray Robin Soderling
SCOREShelliphellip
MIXED BAGCLOCKWISE (24 QUESTIONS)
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
1 This fascinating memoir penned by his daughter Rakita Nanda and told in
Xrsquos words reveals the story behind the man people loved to hate Read about his memorable journey from his time as a young boy who used to wait outside the Clarks Hotel in Shimla to catch a glimpse of the film stars who stayed there to being mobbed by fans at the same hotel many years later The man was once reviled by the public for his lecherous onscreen avatar but was known within the film industry for his couplets which Dharmendra christened X Awargi
What is the name of the memoir ( A 6 word answer is needed)
2 How can you connect the crest of the club below with a 1834 book on fairy
tales by Alexander Pushkin which was inspired from sections of ldquoTales of Alhambrardquo by Washington Irving
THE GOLDEN COCKEREL
3
This natural disaster on April 7th 1906 was a principal reason for a colossal loss incurred by Italy as it had to divert its funds for the rehabilitation of Naples and its people What loss did Italy suffer
THE FOURTH OLYMPICS SHIFTED FROM ROME TO LONDON
4 THIS PARTICULAR TUNE HAS SHADES OF IQBALrsquoS ldquoSARE JAHAN SE ACHHArdquo THIS WAS DONE ON SPECIAL REQUEST OF INDIRA GANDHI WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMPOSITION AND WHO WERE THE COMPOSERS
>
2408498
DOORDARSHAN ORIGINAL SIGNATURE TUNE PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR USTAD ALI AHMED HUSSAIN KHAN
5 This legend was described by C
B Fry as ldquoAtlasrdquo for the sheer burden that he had to bear for his team while batting at one-down He is till date the only test cricketer to be born in the country X His father was working at the construction site in 1909 when he was born Later they immigrated to Jamaica Who is this legend and which country
GEORGE HEADLEY PANAMA
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
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Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
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Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
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answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
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2
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The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
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Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
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Flora
7
7 (2)
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Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
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For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
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Glenaryrsquos
10
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Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
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Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
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Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
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ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
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18
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Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
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Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
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memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
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Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
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24
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Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
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Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
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The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
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Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
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Lord Howersquos Island
33
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Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
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Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
SCOREShelliphellip
MIXED BAGCLOCKWISE (24 QUESTIONS)
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
1 This fascinating memoir penned by his daughter Rakita Nanda and told in
Xrsquos words reveals the story behind the man people loved to hate Read about his memorable journey from his time as a young boy who used to wait outside the Clarks Hotel in Shimla to catch a glimpse of the film stars who stayed there to being mobbed by fans at the same hotel many years later The man was once reviled by the public for his lecherous onscreen avatar but was known within the film industry for his couplets which Dharmendra christened X Awargi
What is the name of the memoir ( A 6 word answer is needed)
2 How can you connect the crest of the club below with a 1834 book on fairy
tales by Alexander Pushkin which was inspired from sections of ldquoTales of Alhambrardquo by Washington Irving
THE GOLDEN COCKEREL
3
This natural disaster on April 7th 1906 was a principal reason for a colossal loss incurred by Italy as it had to divert its funds for the rehabilitation of Naples and its people What loss did Italy suffer
THE FOURTH OLYMPICS SHIFTED FROM ROME TO LONDON
4 THIS PARTICULAR TUNE HAS SHADES OF IQBALrsquoS ldquoSARE JAHAN SE ACHHArdquo THIS WAS DONE ON SPECIAL REQUEST OF INDIRA GANDHI WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMPOSITION AND WHO WERE THE COMPOSERS
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2408498
DOORDARSHAN ORIGINAL SIGNATURE TUNE PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR USTAD ALI AHMED HUSSAIN KHAN
5 This legend was described by C
B Fry as ldquoAtlasrdquo for the sheer burden that he had to bear for his team while batting at one-down He is till date the only test cricketer to be born in the country X His father was working at the construction site in 1909 when he was born Later they immigrated to Jamaica Who is this legend and which country
GEORGE HEADLEY PANAMA
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
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Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
MIXED BAGCLOCKWISE (24 QUESTIONS)
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
1 This fascinating memoir penned by his daughter Rakita Nanda and told in
Xrsquos words reveals the story behind the man people loved to hate Read about his memorable journey from his time as a young boy who used to wait outside the Clarks Hotel in Shimla to catch a glimpse of the film stars who stayed there to being mobbed by fans at the same hotel many years later The man was once reviled by the public for his lecherous onscreen avatar but was known within the film industry for his couplets which Dharmendra christened X Awargi
What is the name of the memoir ( A 6 word answer is needed)
2 How can you connect the crest of the club below with a 1834 book on fairy
tales by Alexander Pushkin which was inspired from sections of ldquoTales of Alhambrardquo by Washington Irving
THE GOLDEN COCKEREL
3
This natural disaster on April 7th 1906 was a principal reason for a colossal loss incurred by Italy as it had to divert its funds for the rehabilitation of Naples and its people What loss did Italy suffer
THE FOURTH OLYMPICS SHIFTED FROM ROME TO LONDON
4 THIS PARTICULAR TUNE HAS SHADES OF IQBALrsquoS ldquoSARE JAHAN SE ACHHArdquo THIS WAS DONE ON SPECIAL REQUEST OF INDIRA GANDHI WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMPOSITION AND WHO WERE THE COMPOSERS
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2408498
DOORDARSHAN ORIGINAL SIGNATURE TUNE PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR USTAD ALI AHMED HUSSAIN KHAN
5 This legend was described by C
B Fry as ldquoAtlasrdquo for the sheer burden that he had to bear for his team while batting at one-down He is till date the only test cricketer to be born in the country X His father was working at the construction site in 1909 when he was born Later they immigrated to Jamaica Who is this legend and which country
GEORGE HEADLEY PANAMA
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
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Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
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eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
1 This fascinating memoir penned by his daughter Rakita Nanda and told in
Xrsquos words reveals the story behind the man people loved to hate Read about his memorable journey from his time as a young boy who used to wait outside the Clarks Hotel in Shimla to catch a glimpse of the film stars who stayed there to being mobbed by fans at the same hotel many years later The man was once reviled by the public for his lecherous onscreen avatar but was known within the film industry for his couplets which Dharmendra christened X Awargi
What is the name of the memoir ( A 6 word answer is needed)
2 How can you connect the crest of the club below with a 1834 book on fairy
tales by Alexander Pushkin which was inspired from sections of ldquoTales of Alhambrardquo by Washington Irving
THE GOLDEN COCKEREL
3
This natural disaster on April 7th 1906 was a principal reason for a colossal loss incurred by Italy as it had to divert its funds for the rehabilitation of Naples and its people What loss did Italy suffer
THE FOURTH OLYMPICS SHIFTED FROM ROME TO LONDON
4 THIS PARTICULAR TUNE HAS SHADES OF IQBALrsquoS ldquoSARE JAHAN SE ACHHArdquo THIS WAS DONE ON SPECIAL REQUEST OF INDIRA GANDHI WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMPOSITION AND WHO WERE THE COMPOSERS
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2408498
DOORDARSHAN ORIGINAL SIGNATURE TUNE PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR USTAD ALI AHMED HUSSAIN KHAN
5 This legend was described by C
B Fry as ldquoAtlasrdquo for the sheer burden that he had to bear for his team while batting at one-down He is till date the only test cricketer to be born in the country X His father was working at the construction site in 1909 when he was born Later they immigrated to Jamaica Who is this legend and which country
GEORGE HEADLEY PANAMA
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
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Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
1 This fascinating memoir penned by his daughter Rakita Nanda and told in
Xrsquos words reveals the story behind the man people loved to hate Read about his memorable journey from his time as a young boy who used to wait outside the Clarks Hotel in Shimla to catch a glimpse of the film stars who stayed there to being mobbed by fans at the same hotel many years later The man was once reviled by the public for his lecherous onscreen avatar but was known within the film industry for his couplets which Dharmendra christened X Awargi
What is the name of the memoir ( A 6 word answer is needed)
2 How can you connect the crest of the club below with a 1834 book on fairy
tales by Alexander Pushkin which was inspired from sections of ldquoTales of Alhambrardquo by Washington Irving
THE GOLDEN COCKEREL
3
This natural disaster on April 7th 1906 was a principal reason for a colossal loss incurred by Italy as it had to divert its funds for the rehabilitation of Naples and its people What loss did Italy suffer
THE FOURTH OLYMPICS SHIFTED FROM ROME TO LONDON
4 THIS PARTICULAR TUNE HAS SHADES OF IQBALrsquoS ldquoSARE JAHAN SE ACHHArdquo THIS WAS DONE ON SPECIAL REQUEST OF INDIRA GANDHI WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMPOSITION AND WHO WERE THE COMPOSERS
>
2408498
DOORDARSHAN ORIGINAL SIGNATURE TUNE PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR USTAD ALI AHMED HUSSAIN KHAN
5 This legend was described by C
B Fry as ldquoAtlasrdquo for the sheer burden that he had to bear for his team while batting at one-down He is till date the only test cricketer to be born in the country X His father was working at the construction site in 1909 when he was born Later they immigrated to Jamaica Who is this legend and which country
GEORGE HEADLEY PANAMA
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
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IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
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eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
2 How can you connect the crest of the club below with a 1834 book on fairy
tales by Alexander Pushkin which was inspired from sections of ldquoTales of Alhambrardquo by Washington Irving
THE GOLDEN COCKEREL
3
This natural disaster on April 7th 1906 was a principal reason for a colossal loss incurred by Italy as it had to divert its funds for the rehabilitation of Naples and its people What loss did Italy suffer
THE FOURTH OLYMPICS SHIFTED FROM ROME TO LONDON
4 THIS PARTICULAR TUNE HAS SHADES OF IQBALrsquoS ldquoSARE JAHAN SE ACHHArdquo THIS WAS DONE ON SPECIAL REQUEST OF INDIRA GANDHI WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMPOSITION AND WHO WERE THE COMPOSERS
>
2408498
DOORDARSHAN ORIGINAL SIGNATURE TUNE PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR USTAD ALI AHMED HUSSAIN KHAN
5 This legend was described by C
B Fry as ldquoAtlasrdquo for the sheer burden that he had to bear for his team while batting at one-down He is till date the only test cricketer to be born in the country X His father was working at the construction site in 1909 when he was born Later they immigrated to Jamaica Who is this legend and which country
GEORGE HEADLEY PANAMA
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
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CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
THE GOLDEN COCKEREL
3
This natural disaster on April 7th 1906 was a principal reason for a colossal loss incurred by Italy as it had to divert its funds for the rehabilitation of Naples and its people What loss did Italy suffer
THE FOURTH OLYMPICS SHIFTED FROM ROME TO LONDON
4 THIS PARTICULAR TUNE HAS SHADES OF IQBALrsquoS ldquoSARE JAHAN SE ACHHArdquo THIS WAS DONE ON SPECIAL REQUEST OF INDIRA GANDHI WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMPOSITION AND WHO WERE THE COMPOSERS
>
2408498
DOORDARSHAN ORIGINAL SIGNATURE TUNE PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR USTAD ALI AHMED HUSSAIN KHAN
5 This legend was described by C
B Fry as ldquoAtlasrdquo for the sheer burden that he had to bear for his team while batting at one-down He is till date the only test cricketer to be born in the country X His father was working at the construction site in 1909 when he was born Later they immigrated to Jamaica Who is this legend and which country
GEORGE HEADLEY PANAMA
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
3
This natural disaster on April 7th 1906 was a principal reason for a colossal loss incurred by Italy as it had to divert its funds for the rehabilitation of Naples and its people What loss did Italy suffer
THE FOURTH OLYMPICS SHIFTED FROM ROME TO LONDON
4 THIS PARTICULAR TUNE HAS SHADES OF IQBALrsquoS ldquoSARE JAHAN SE ACHHArdquo THIS WAS DONE ON SPECIAL REQUEST OF INDIRA GANDHI WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMPOSITION AND WHO WERE THE COMPOSERS
>
2408498
DOORDARSHAN ORIGINAL SIGNATURE TUNE PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR USTAD ALI AHMED HUSSAIN KHAN
5 This legend was described by C
B Fry as ldquoAtlasrdquo for the sheer burden that he had to bear for his team while batting at one-down He is till date the only test cricketer to be born in the country X His father was working at the construction site in 1909 when he was born Later they immigrated to Jamaica Who is this legend and which country
GEORGE HEADLEY PANAMA
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
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CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
THE FOURTH OLYMPICS SHIFTED FROM ROME TO LONDON
4 THIS PARTICULAR TUNE HAS SHADES OF IQBALrsquoS ldquoSARE JAHAN SE ACHHArdquo THIS WAS DONE ON SPECIAL REQUEST OF INDIRA GANDHI WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMPOSITION AND WHO WERE THE COMPOSERS
>
2408498
DOORDARSHAN ORIGINAL SIGNATURE TUNE PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR USTAD ALI AHMED HUSSAIN KHAN
5 This legend was described by C
B Fry as ldquoAtlasrdquo for the sheer burden that he had to bear for his team while batting at one-down He is till date the only test cricketer to be born in the country X His father was working at the construction site in 1909 when he was born Later they immigrated to Jamaica Who is this legend and which country
GEORGE HEADLEY PANAMA
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
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795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
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Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
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answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
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2
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The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
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Flora
7
7 (2)
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Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
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For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
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Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
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18
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Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
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24
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Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
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Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
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The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
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Lord Howersquos Island
33
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Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
4 THIS PARTICULAR TUNE HAS SHADES OF IQBALrsquoS ldquoSARE JAHAN SE ACHHArdquo THIS WAS DONE ON SPECIAL REQUEST OF INDIRA GANDHI WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMPOSITION AND WHO WERE THE COMPOSERS
>
2408498
DOORDARSHAN ORIGINAL SIGNATURE TUNE PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR USTAD ALI AHMED HUSSAIN KHAN
5 This legend was described by C
B Fry as ldquoAtlasrdquo for the sheer burden that he had to bear for his team while batting at one-down He is till date the only test cricketer to be born in the country X His father was working at the construction site in 1909 when he was born Later they immigrated to Jamaica Who is this legend and which country
GEORGE HEADLEY PANAMA
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
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Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
DOORDARSHAN ORIGINAL SIGNATURE TUNE PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR USTAD ALI AHMED HUSSAIN KHAN
5 This legend was described by C
B Fry as ldquoAtlasrdquo for the sheer burden that he had to bear for his team while batting at one-down He is till date the only test cricketer to be born in the country X His father was working at the construction site in 1909 when he was born Later they immigrated to Jamaica Who is this legend and which country
GEORGE HEADLEY PANAMA
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
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IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
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eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
5 This legend was described by C
B Fry as ldquoAtlasrdquo for the sheer burden that he had to bear for his team while batting at one-down He is till date the only test cricketer to be born in the country X His father was working at the construction site in 1909 when he was born Later they immigrated to Jamaica Who is this legend and which country
GEORGE HEADLEY PANAMA
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
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Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
GEORGE HEADLEY PANAMA
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
6 WHICH WORD CONNECTS THESE TWO PORTRAITS BY ALEXANDER ROSLIN AND TRITIAN WITH A MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HISTORIC DADABHAI NAOROJI ROAD
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
FLORA
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
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2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
7 It was named by Portuguese navigators who called it Cabo das Xmdash
Portuguese for ldquoX of Needlesmdashafter noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region
To its south X current flows south along the east coast of Africa retroflects back into the Indian Ocean
It has often been overshadowed by another similar place as a common misconception prevails What is X and also what misconception (Picture in next slide)
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
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Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
7
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
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Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
CAPE AGULHAS THE ACTUAL SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA (AN HONOUR BESTOWED UPON CAPE OF GOOD HOPE)
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
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CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
8 ldquoLo I have flung to the East and the West
Priceless treasures torn from my breastAnd yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of the duty the sabres of doomGathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian wavesScattered like shells on Egyptian sandsThey lie with pale brows and brave broken handsthey are strewn like blossoms mown down by chanceOn the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and Francerdquo
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
8 This is an excerpt from a poem ldquoThe gift of Indiardquo(1915) which has been
used as the opening lines of a recently published historical novel on the participation of Indian soldiers in the first World War
What book and who is the poet
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
FOR KING AND ANOTHER COUNTRY SAROJINI NAIDU
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
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Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
9 Originally named Vado after its Italian owner and later Pliva post-
independence it was bought by a Patna-based family and managed by an Armenian In 1959 the late A T Edwards a local working there since 1945 was offered the role of manager His family later bought the property It was an uphill task but Edwards didnrsquot give up He changed the name to X but kept its essence intact (the family still has a list of the first dayrsquos sale totalling Rs 396) X still has the original fireplace French windows and carved columns Added attractions were evening dances with live bands and a few drunken brawls
What is X which till date looks and tastes old-world with specialities like sizzlers meat pies cinnamon buns and apple pie
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
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IndiaMp3com
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eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
GLENARYrsquoS
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
10 X is a book which was first published on a weekly basis in a Sunday
supplement with ldquoSongbad Protidinrdquo It deals with several controversial topics like gender equality rights of transgender population social bias and prejudices etc and delves deep into art architecture history mythology and anthropology in a lucid manner The author received the Ananda Purashakar for this monumental effort in 2015 Sadly the editor of the supplement who had approved of this controversial story to come out of the closet in 2012 could not live to see this day
What book who is the author and the unfortunate yet farsighted editor
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
HOLDEY GOLAP BY SWAPNAMOY CHAKRABORTY RITUPARNO GHOSH
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
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Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
11 THESE ARE THE INTERIORS OF A VILLA IN NEWPORT CALIFORNIA WHOSE INTRICATE DESIGNS AND SPRAWLING INTERIORS TOOK
18 YEARS TO FINISH IT HAS THUS BEEN SUITABLY NAMED AFTER AN ITEM WHICH FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS EXEMPLIFIED FINE
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OPULENCE WHAT
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
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CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
VILLA FABRAGE
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
12 This is a daily congregation of hungry
souls in front of No3 Esplanade East What is the name of this food street which claims (and very truly so) to feed more than thousand office-babus daily at the cheapest of rates Also how can you connect this place to a very essential ldquofirstrdquo in January1780
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
DACRES LANE RENAMED AFTER JAMES HICKEY WHO BROUGHT OUT BENGAL GAZETTE (1ST MAJOR INDIAN NEWSPAPER) IN JANUARY 1780
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
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Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
13 In its earliest form the eight points denoted the eight obligations or
aspirations With time the eight points also came to represent the eight ldquolanguesrdquo (ldquotonguesrdquo of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order)Now it represents eight beautitudes (or lsquoblessingsrsquo)
Babesia microti a parasite causing an infection similar to Malaria has a pathognomonic appearance within the human RBCs when visualised under a microscope which has been compared to the above entity (Picture in next slide)
What
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
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IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
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CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
13
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
MALTESE CROSS
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
14 CONNECT THIS TOWN ON THE NORTH SEA COAST OF NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH THE IMAGES
THAT FOLLOW
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
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Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
14
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
14
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
ldquoARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIRPARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY amp THYMEREMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERESHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINErdquo
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
15 FROM BREZHNEV TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH THIS HEADGEAR MADE OF FUR FROM ASTRAKHAN HAS BEEN WORN BY SEVERAL NOTED MEN ACROSS CENTURIES IN FACT A VARIATION OF THIS HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A PART OF NATIONAL ATTIRE BY A COUNTRY WHAT AND ALSO WHICH VARIATION
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
KARAKUL JINNAH CAP (PAKISTAN)
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
17 A 1939 best seller was marred with controversy regarding its content In
1944 it was also the subject of a fairly well-known essay by George Orwell ldquoRaffles and XrdquoIn 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 was too distant for a new generation of readers This means that readers of the Orwell essay will not understand many of Orwells quotations and references because they came from the earlier edition
Which novella and the author
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
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null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
18
To the right is Ameer Bee born in Junagarh in the early part of 20th century she excelled in Badminton and carrom Her scalps are shadily visible in the picture However history remembers her for her unique family ties related to an unparalleled occurrence in a completely different sport What
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
19 Dr S N Pandey an industrious medical student (much unlike the
quizmaster) started writing a particular series for some amount of economic stability In later years he penned ldquoGupta Jouna Rog (secret sexual diseases) and also was hypothesised to be the original Sri Vrigu the famed palmist residing at the outskirts of Kolkata
What was the phenomena created by Dr Pandey in his youth and who was the protagonist in most of his ldquomajorrdquo works
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
SWAPANKUMARrsquoS PULP FICTION DEEPAK CHATTERJEE
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
20IDENTIFY THE VOICE HER SON DIED IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT WHICH LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON HER LIFE AS SHE SLOWLY ISOLATED HERSELF IN THAT ACCIDENT ANOTHER YOUNGSTER IN HIS TEENS WAS INVOLVED WHO INCIDENTALLY RECUPERATED AND WENT ON TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS WHO AND WHY HAS HE BEEN IN LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE RECENT MONTHS
>
Aawara Hai Galiyon Mein IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3Com
IndiaMp3com
28715814
eng - IndiaMp3Com (Let The Music Play)
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
CHITRA SINGH SAIRAJ BAHUTULE RUCKUS OVER LAXMI RATAN SHUKLArsquoS RETIREMENT
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
21 Celestis is an United States based business enterprise which specialises in
a particular service and has gained popularity in recent past due to the traditional funeral expenses going through the roof in the US What services does Celestis provide
The gentleman (on right) on the next slide should act as a clue
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
21
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
MEMORIAL SPACEFLIGHTS PROGRAM
Celestis organises memorial spaceflights program
Celestis believes ldquoThat we are entrusted by our clients to treat their loved onersquos cremated
remains with the utmost dignity and respect We view this as a sacred trust In environmentally benign non invasive commercial development of the
space frontier We therefore ensure that our payloads of cremated remains are not ldquoscatteredrdquo in space or otherwise contribute to orbital debris
That in addition to commemorating the lives of our clientsrsquo departed loved ones our successful aerospace venture helps support the vision of a robust future for humanity in spardquo
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
22BOTH THE FLAGS BELONG TO THE SAME ENTITY AND THE
CHANGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WAS TRIGGERED BY A SEMINAL EVENT IN HISTORY WHAT ALSO TO WHOM DOES THE ENTITY SHOWN ON THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT BELONG
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
FLAGS OF BORDURIA- PRE AND POST WORLD WAR-IIMARSHAL KURVI-TASCH
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
23 Identify the lyricist and the voice
>
null
795211
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Kishori Amonkar
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
24 Imran Rafi and his Magic Musical Group based in Meerut often bring
together megastars like Katrina Hrithik or Johnny Lever in various places of Uttar Pradesh The welcome reserved for these screen icons is always warm affectionate and innocent whether it is at Muzzafarnagar Hathras Bijnor or Moradabad In fact according to Mahesh Waghela who is in charge of a particular matinee idol says that his business has seen an anomalous surge post July 2012 which had been gradually waning since the late 70s
Put funda to explain the anomaly
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
These are duplicates of Bolly superstars entertaining people in the small towns of UP
Mahesh Waghela impersonates Kaka who passed away on July 182012
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
SCOREShelliphelliphellip
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
PHOTO-MEMORYWRITTEN
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
RULES5 Questions5 iconic photographsIdentify the iconic locations5 points each5 bonus for a full house
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
1
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
2
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
3
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
4
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
5
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
TIME FOR ANSWER hellip
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
1
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
ROOSEVELT HOTEL LOS ANGELES
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
2
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
MADRAS CORPORATION STADIUM
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
3
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
LA MONEDA PALACE CHILE
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
4
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
5
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
SOLVAY INSTITUTE BRUSSELS
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
LONG VISUAL CONNECTWRITTEN
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
RULES7 slides
Non-exhaustive list
Points are mentioned in the individual slides
Multiple tries allowed
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
+15-6
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
+10-3
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
+50
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
TIME FOR ANSWERShelliphelliphelliphellip
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
BORNEOrsquoR BIBHISHIKA
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
HIMALAYrsquoE HRITKAMPO
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
VANCOUVERrsquoE VAMPIRE
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
ATLANTICrsquoE ATONKO
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
HONDURASrsquoE HAHAKAR
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
BOMBAIrsquoR BOMBETEY
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
SAHARArsquoY SHIHARAN
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
ldquoETA AMARrdquo
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
MIXED BAGANTI-CLOCKWISE
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
RULES INFINITE POUNCE WITH BOUNCE
+10-10 ON POUNCE
+10 ON BOUNCE
WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS IN A LEGIBLE HAND OR ELSE BE PREPARED TO GET A NEGATIVE
UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCRECARD
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
25 Reuben Fine an American Grandmaster who played him noted that X was
actually a serf on the estate of a maharajah when his chess genius was discovered He spoke English poorly and kept score in Hindustani It was said that he could not even read the European notations The ldquo______ was not the term of status that we supposed it to be it was merely a first namerdquo
Who is Reuben Fine referring to who won three British Championships in four years between 1929 and 1933
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
MIR SULTAN KHAN
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
26 How can you connect the following images to a particular colour (which is
very similar to the name of a trilogy described by Rushdie as the worst instance of literature ever to be printed)
River Shannon Skibbereen
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
Tipperary town
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
FORTY SHADES OF GREEN (BY JOHNNY CASH)
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
27The two gentlemen in the top row belong to a rare club of only two members in test match cricket to which the man below would have been a member but for an ldquounfortunaterdquo anomaly What exclusive club (Pictures next slide)
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
THE ONLY NOT-OUT BATSMEN IN LAKER AND KUMBLErsquoS 10-WICKET INNINGS HAUL LINDWALL WAS THE NOT OUT BATSMAN IN LAKERrsquoS 9-37 IN THE SAME 1956 TEST
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
28 In Ain - I - Akbari Abul Fazal devotes an entire section (book 2 section 29)
to the amusements which principally includes ldquoIshqbazirdquo What specifically is ldquoishqbazirdquo
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
PIGEON FLYING
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
29 Soft matter is the focus of the inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Cates
who was elected as the University of Cambridgersquos 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics last year In his lecture Cates will discuss the jamming behaviour of colloids and dense suspensions Both are types of soft matter with an internal structure something like tiny ping-pong balls dispersed in a liquid which form a cluster when their propulsion is switched on
After considering other explanations ndash including the idea that the clusters arise by a process like the flocking of birds ndash Cates concluded that each cluster is effectively a sort of traffic jam
What common phenomena can thus be explained
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO GET KETCHUP OUT OF THE BOTTLE
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
30 During World War II wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sell out of Dutch
art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and they avidly bought van Meegerens artwork Nevertheless ldquoJesus among the doctorsrdquo ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goumlring
Following the war the painting was discovered in Goumlrings possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945
Why was he arrested
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
VAN MEEGEREN WAS A MASTER FORGER AND THE PARTICULAR PAINTING WAS A FORGERY OF A VERMEER MASTERPIECE
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
31 The following images are a part of a certain museum archive by ________
historian Jason Scott which made people mad in the 1980s and 90s but have been described in recent past as ldquopsychedelicrdquo ldquogaudyrdquo and ldquoprovocativerdquo What is the name of this museum and what is it about
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
MALWARE MUSEUM FEATURES AN ONLINE ARCHIVE OF YESTERYEAR COMPUTER VIRUSESrsquo ANIMATIONS TAUNTS AND EVEN GAMES THAT WOULD FLASH UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AS THE VIRUS TOOK HOLD
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
32 Described by the UN as ldquoan area of spectacular and scenic landscapesrdquo it is
nothing if not dramatic Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
The X phasmid or stick insect is on the list of critically endangered species It was thought to be extinct by 1920 and in 2001 24 insects were rediscovered by on Ballrsquos Pyramid What is X
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
LORD HOWErsquoS ISLAND
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
33 Which two words of nearly similar meaning (of French origin) have
originated from the glossary for a quick return thrust in this sport
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
REPARTEE AND RIPOSTE
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
34 Alexander Milov responded to the so-called lsquode-Communisationrsquo law
passed by the Ukrainian parliament in April 2015 in a unique way According to him ldquoI wanted to make a symbol of American pop culture which appears to be more durable than the Soviet idealrdquo And so this came up in Odessa Ukraine What transformation happened because of this
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
LENINrsquoS STATUE WAS MORPHED INTO DARTH VADER
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
35 According to the official website each ________ ______ have 259 little
squares on an average This arrangement has been made so that each tiny box holds even more chunks and swirls than a smooth surface would
FITB and also whose website makes such a claim
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
WAFFLE CONE BEN AND JERRY
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
36 Developed by Edmond Locard in 1912 what is the basis for this system of
personal identification
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
POROSCOPY - UNIQUE PATTERN OF SWEAT PORES IN PALMS AND SOLES
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
37 This cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of
Princess Victoria a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of _________ The name refers to a town in central Germany
The family of Prince Louis was living in England and gave up their German titles during World War I and came to be known as _________ a name that would have a significant Indian connection in the years to follow
Identify both- the cake and the new adopted family surname
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
BATTENBERG CAKE MOUNTBATTEN
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
38 This is an Indian stamp issued in
2013 to honour the Dadashaheb Falke Award recipient of 1973 She was a Bagdadi Jew from Poona Who is this screen queen from silent era
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
SULOCHANA
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
39 This is Edith Bratt The love story of
X and Y at the heart of his epic was inspired by her relationship with the author They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Edgbaston Birmingham
While he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of X and Y in the epic as he would often refer to Edith as ldquohellipmy Yrdquo
Who are X and Y Which epic
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
THE SILMARILLION BEREN AND LUTHIEN
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
40 I joined as a trainee in 1999 and was regularized in the rank of constable
in 2000 Nine years later I got promoted to head constable and that was it I spoke to the government officials many times about this but nothing happened the 35-year-old said here after playing the final match in national colours
Who
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
OINAM BEMBEM DEVI
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
41ldquoO wonderHow many godly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O________ ________ _________That has such people intrdquo
bull The above is a quote by Miranda from Shakespearersquos ldquoThe Tempestrdquo When she sees other people for the first time she is overcome with excitement and utters among other praise the famous line above
bull Which work of literature derives its title from this Also what is the significance of the timeframe in the book being designated as AF
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
BRAVE NEW WORLD ANNO FORD (IN THE YEAR OF HENRY FORD)
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
42
What terminology an integral part of most of our lives from this part of the world evolved due to this change from left to right
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
KATIKATHI ROLLS
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
43THESE ARE FLAGS USED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SINCE THEIR INCEPTION HOWEVER IN 20TH CENTURY THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO WARD OFF A CRISIS IN RESPECTIVE COUNTRIESWHAT AND WHAT ORIGINAL CONNOTATION DO THEY HAVE
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
PROVISIONAL FLAGS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN AFTER ALLIED ANNEXATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II CHARLIE AND ECHO- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
44 On 15th April2015 The Guardian came up with this list of top ten books about the British in India Identify X Y A B
1 X - A2 White Mughals - William Dalrymple 3 Up the Country - Emily Eden 4 A Matter of Honour - Philip Mason5 Curry and Rice - George Franklin Atkinson6 The Great Mutiny - Christopher Hibbert7 The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell8 Y - B9 A Passage to India - EM Forster10 Staying On - Paul Scott
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
X- KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Y- MAN EATERS OF KUMAON BY JIM CORBETT
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
45bull Nelsonrsquos Blood is a term that was coined after the dead body of Admiral
Nelson was brought from Trafalgar to Gibraltar by the Navy soaked in preservative
bull What essentially is Nelsonrsquos Blood and why this coinage
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
RUM OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BODY WAS SOAKED IN RUM
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
46 IDENTIFY THE ART FORM
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
KANGRA ART
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
SCOREShelliphelliphelliphellip
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
47 This is an unique memorial honouring the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir
Archibald Mcindoe and the hundreds of second world war air crew whom he rescued from despair in the town of East Grinstead
Mcindoe used completely new techniques devised by him on these WWII victims with severe disabilities and successfully rehabilitated them into normal life
These patients then formed a drinking society called ldquo ______ _______clubrdquo which till date meets in the hospital and the nearby pub their name based on McIndoes cheerful admission that they were sacrificed for his techniques of skin grafting and repair
What is the club known as
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
GUINEA PIGS CLUB
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
MY GUINEA PIGS helliphelliphellip
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
VOTE OF THANKShellip Medical College Quiz Club (Dr) Sayantan Roy GSec M C S U (Dr) Arnab Mukherjee President M C S U Orkorsquos Bookline Santarsquos Fantasea Mr Ashoke Sanyal Mr Sayantan Guha Mr Abir Bhattacharya Mr Bedbyas Datta All the participants And the audiencehelliphellip
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
LAST QUESTIONhelliphellip
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
48 THESE ARE THE 1998 AND 1999 AWARDEES OF WHICH PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH AWARD
Ron Pickering ndash Athletics Sir Alf Ramsey ndash Football Peggy Potts ndash Hockey Kevin Hickey ndash Boxing David Whitaker ndash Hockey Mike Spracklen ndash Rowing
Billy Cusack ndash Judo Jim Telfer amp Ian McGeehan ndash
Rugby Union Malcolm Arnold ndash Athletics Peter Keen ndash Cycling Sir Alex Ferguson ndash Football Steve Pullen ndash Judo
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
MUSSABINI MEDAL
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B
Slide 211
Mussabini medal
Slide 213
G-the geeky general quiz
rounds
FEMME FATALE
rules
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Scoreshelliphellip
shortlisted
List all the players who have been defeated by roger Federer in
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
answer
Scoreshelliphellip (2)
mixed bag
Rules
1
Slide 19
Slide 20
2
Slide 22
The Golden Cockerel
3
Slide 25
The fourth Olympics shifted from Rome to London
Slide 28
Doordarshan original signature tune Pandit Ravi Shankar Ustad
5
Slide 31
George Headley Panama
6 Which word connects these two portrait
Slide 34
Slide 35
Flora
7
7 (2)
Slide 39
Cape Agulhas The actual Southern tip of Africa (an honour best
8
8 (2)
Slide 43
For King and another country Sarojini Naidu
9
Slide 46
Glenaryrsquos
10
Slide 49
Holdey Golap by Swapnamoy Chakraborty Rituparno Ghosh
11 These are the interiors of a villa in Newport California w
Slide 52
Villa Fabrage
12
Slide 55
Dacres Lane Renamed after James Hickey who brought out Bengal
13
13 (2)
Slide 59
Maltese Cross
14 Connect this town on the North Sea Coast of North Yorkshir
14
14 (2)
Slide 64
ldquoAre you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley sage rosemary amp t
15 From Brezhnev to Farooq Abdullah th
Slide 67
Karakul Jinnah Cap (Pakistan)
17
Slide 70
Slide 71
18
Slide 73
Cricketrsquos greatest matriarch- Wazir Haneef Sadik Mustaq Rae
19
Slide 76
Swapankumarrsquos Pulp Fiction Deepak Chatterjee
20 Identify the voi
Slide 79
Chitra Singh Sairaj Bahutule Ruckus over Laxmi Ratan Shuklarsquos
21
21 (2)
Slide 83
memorial spaceflights program
22 Both the flags belong to the same entity and the change fro
Slide 86
Flags of Borduria- pre and post World War-II Marshal Kurvi-tas
23
Slide 89
Slide 90
24
Slide 92
Slide 93
Scoreshelliphelliphellip
Photo-memory
rules (2)
1 (2)
2
3 (2)
4
5 (2)
Time for answer hellip
1 (3)
Roosevelt hotel los Angeles
2 (2)
Madras corporation stadium
3 (3)
La moneda palace Chile
4 (2)
Lincoln memorial
5 (3)
Solvay institute Brussels
Long visual connect
RULES
+35-18
+30-15
+25-12
+20-9
+15-6
+10-3
+50
Time for answershelliphelliphelliphellip
Borneorsquor bibhishika
Himalayrsquoe hritkampo
Vancouverrsquoe vampire
Atlanticrsquoe atonko
Hondurasrsquoe hahakar
Bombairsquor bombetey
Sahararsquoy shiharan
ldquoEta Amarrdquo
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
Mixed bag
Rules (2)
25
Slide 135
Mir Sultan Khan
26
Slide 138
Slide 139
Forty Shades of Green (by Johnny Cash)
27
Slide 142
Slide 143
The only not-out batsmen in Laker and Kumblersquos 10-wicket inning
28
Slide 146
Pigeon flying
29
Slide 149
Why its so difficult to get ketchup out of the bottle
30
Slide 152
Van Meegeren was a master forger and the particular painting wa
31
Slide 155
Malware Museum Features an online archive of yesteryear comput
32
Slide 158
Slide 159
Lord Howersquos Island
33
Slide 162
Repartee and riposte
34
Slide 165
Leninrsquos statue was morphed into darth vader
35
Slide 168
Waffle cone ben and jerry
36
Slide 171
Poroscopy - unique pattern of sweat pores in palms and soles
37
Slide 174
Battenberg cake Mountbatten
38
Slide 177
Sulochana
39
Slide 180
The Silmarillion beren and luthien
40
Slide 183
Oinam bembem devi
41
Slide 186
Brave new world Anno ford (in the year of henry ford)
42
Slide 189
Katikathi rolls
43 These are flags u
Slide 192
Provisional flags for Germany and japan after allied annexation
44
Slide 195
X- Kim by Rudyard Kipling y- man eaters of kumaon by Jim Corb
45
Slide 198
Rum of the British royal navy body was soaked in rum
46 Identify the art form
Slide 201
Kangra art
Scoreshelliphelliphelliphellip
47
Slide 205
Guinea pigs club
My Guinea pigs helliphelliphellip
Vote of thankshellip
Last questionhelliphellip
48 These are the 1998 and 1999 awardees of which prestigious B