RESEARCHED AND CONDUCTED BY

MAHENDRA “LORD” MOHAN DASUTKARSH SHARMA

The Not-so-funnyGeneral Quiz

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Disclaimer

This is a Google doodle, Amul ad, Oreo ad and minimalist poster-free quiz. Really. Now shut up.

I couldn’t get enough sleep for the last few days, you-know-why. For your own sake, don’t angry me. (Grammatical mistake, you say? Dare you show me.)

I may be on the side of the angels, but don’t think for one second that I am one of them. Don’t angry me. I am thy God. I am Sherlock Holmes Jr.

A Study in Google

Screenshots of Google Easter Eggs and other interesting features.

Written round.+5 for every correct

answer.Additional +5 if all

correct.

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1) What’s the keyword?

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2) Once again, the keyword please.

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3) What result does the calculator show?

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4) Which famous English phrase?

The first Google search result of a famous English phrase. What phrase? Oral hints will be given by me.

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5) What is the caution?

Exchange sheets!

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1) What’s the keyword?

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2) Once again, the keyword please.

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3) What result does the calculator show?

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4) Which famous English phrase?

The first Google search result of a famous English phrase. What phrase? Oral hints will be given by me.

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5) What is the caution?

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A Scandal in Brain-greyia

12 questions. Clockwise.+10 for every correct answer.For pounce, +10/-10.

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Who is the painter?

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Fill in both the blanks.

"His Excellency, General Colonel Doctor ____, Democratic President-For-Life, Invincible and All-Triumphant Commander, Chief Ophthalmologist, Brilliant Genius of Humanity, Excellent Swimmer Including Butterfly, and Beloved Oppressor and Ruthless Protector of the Precious and Expendable People of _____."

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Answer

Aladeen.Wadiya.

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Read the poem.

Ten little Soldier Boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine.

Nine little Soldier Boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight.

Eight little Soldier Boys travelling in Devon; One said he'd stay there and then there were seven.

Seven little Soldier Boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in halves and then there were six.

Six little Soldier Boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five. (contd.)

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FITB.

Five little Soldier Boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four.

Four little Soldier Boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three.

Three little Soldier Boys walking in the zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two.

Two little Soldier Boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one.

One little Soldier Boy left all alone; He went out and hanged himself ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.

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What phrase/expression/doodle?It is an American popular culture expression

that became popular during World War II; it is typically seen in graffiti. Its origins are debated, but the phrase and the distinctive accompanying doodle became associated with GIs in the 1940s. In Britain, the graffiti is known as "Mr Chad" or just "Chad".

Author Charles Panati says that in the United States "the mischievous face and the phrase became a national joke..." The major _ graffiti fad ended in the 1950s, but today people all over the world still scribble the character and “___ __ ___" in schools, trains, and other similar public areas.

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Additional hint.

(Hint, if needed: The following circuit diagram is a spoof of the graphiti/phrase/doodle.)

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Samosapedia entry of which word?

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Jugaad.

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Which song?

The Summy Company registered for copyright of the song in 1935. In 1988, Warner/Chappell purchased Summy Company for $25 million, with the value of the song estimated at $5 million. Based on the 1935 copyright registration, Warner claims that the United States copyright will not expire until 2030, and that unauthorized public performances of the song are technically illegal unless royalties are paid to Warner. In the European Union, the copyright of the song will expire on December 31, 2016. It is the most recognized song in the English language.

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Happy Birthday To You.

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This is the poster of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. The next poster is a spoof of this poster. FITB of the next poster.

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Which statue?

There are several legends behind this statue, but the most famous is the one about Duke Godfrey III of Leuven. In 1142, the troops of two-year-old lord were battling against the troops of the Berthouts, the lords of Grimbergen, in Ransbeke (now Neder-Over-Heembeek). The troops put the infant lord in a basket and hung the basket in a tree to encourage them. From there, the boy urinated on the troops of the Berthouts, who eventually lost the battle.

(contd.)

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The statue is dressed in costume several times each week, according to a published schedule which is posted on the railings around the fountain. His wardrobe consists of several hundred different costumes. The costumes are managed by the non-profit association The Friends of _____-___, who review hundreds of designs submitted each year, and select a small number to be produced and used.

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Manneken Pis

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Connect!

Note: the first picture is generic.

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1st things sold on Ebay, Amazon and Flipkart.

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Easy one. Who is this beauty?

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Hina Rabbani Khar.

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You should know this personality.

In 1937, after the Japanese invasion of China, the communist General Zhu De requested Jawaharlal Nehru to send Indian physicians to China. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, the President of the Indian National Congress, made arrangements to send a team of volunteer doctors and an ambulance by collecting a fund of Rs 22,000 on the All-Indiam China Day and China Fund days on July 7-9.

(contd.)

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Who is the person?

X was one of five Indian physicians dispatched to China to provide medical assistance during the Second Sino-JapaneseWar in 1938. Besides being known for his dedication and perseverance, he has also been regarded as an example for Sino-Indian friendship and collaboration.

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Dwarkanath Kotnis.

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What is happening here? Photographer?

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First Republic Day parade.Homai Vyarawala.

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The Reichen-brain Fall

12 questions. Anti-clockwise.+10 for every correct answer.For pounce, +10/-10.

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Question on the next slide…

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What happened there?

On the left, you see a famous painting of the place on the right, painted by JMW Turner (a BIG hint).

In 1991, commemorating 100 years of an event, a plaque was put there in English, German and French mentioning the event.

What happened there on 4th May 1891? Or alternatively, identify the place.

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What?

When you combine the names of these two people, you get something which is based on ‘Six degrees of separation’. (Explanation will be done orally. Too lazy to write.)

What?

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Erdős-Bacon number.It is the sum of one's Erdős number - which

measures the "collaborative distance" in authoring mathematical papers between that person and Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős - and one's Bacon number - which represents the number of links, through roles in films, by which the individual is separated from American actor Kevin Bacon. The lower the number, the closer a person is to Erdős and Bacon.

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Agnolo Firenzoula was an Italian poet. In Della perfetta (Of the Perfect beauty of a woman) he advised the following to noble women:

Close the mouth at the right corner with a suave and nimble movement, and open it at the left side, as if you were smiling secretly - not in an artificial manner, but as though unconsciously - this is not affectation, if it is done in moderation and in a restrained and graceful manner and accompanied by innocent coquetry and certain movements of the eyes.

What was he advising noble women on?

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How to smile like Mona Lisa.

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Aakhir kyun?

The Football Association of Greenland is not a member of FIFA or any of its confederations and hence cannot take part in any of the tournaments conducted by FIFA. Greenland couldn't become a part of FIFA because it couldn't meet a particular regulation.

What reason?

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Grass does not grow naturally in Greenland.

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Be patient, question is on the next slide.

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You might have seen this pic many times, where Walt Disney was presented this honorary Oscar for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. This, however, is not my question today.

Who is the girl, presenting the award to Disney, in the picture?

Or, for half points, tell me the distinction she holds in Oscar history.

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Shirley Temple.

Youngest academy award winner.Received special juvenile academy award at

the age of 6.Best actress award is WRONG.

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Whose tomb?

This tomb has a locked gate on one side, and is otherwise open all around.

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Short question, long answer.

What is the Pinocchio Paradox?(Hint: Have you guys heard the story of a

barber who cuts hair of only those and all those villagers in his village who don’t cut their hair on their own?)

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The paradox explains the dilemma of what would happen if Pinocchio says “My nose will grow now”.

If he is lying, his nose should grow, but if his nose grows, then he is actually telling the truth. On the other hand, if he is telling the truth and his nose starts growing, then it will violate the condition that his nose grows when he is lying.

What’s so special about these?

These limited edition stamps were released on the CWG by the Indian Postal department. There was something special about them.

What?

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These were the first stamps to use the new Rupee symbol. Also they dropped the paisa notation in the stamps’ denomination.

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What?

It is round and has its name engraved into its top surface. The edges of the top surface are also engraved with an intricate design. It was created in 1874 to commemorate the marriage of the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia to the Duke of Edinburgh. It is also a symbol of Spain’s economic recovery after the Spanish Civil War.

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Marie biscuit.

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What is this a list/graph of? (y-axis omitted)

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The most expensive paintings sold.

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What weapon? Famously used by whom?

Identify this weapon, famously used by a famous Indian ruler.

Hint: Battle of Pratapgarh

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Baghnakh or Tiger Claw.The first well-known usage of the weapon

was by the first Maratha emperor Shivaji who used a bichawa bagh nakha to defeat the Bijapur general Afzal Khan in the battle of Pratapgarh.

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Who are they?

These two actresses looked so much alike while portraying a single character together that, according to a story, their own mothers had difficulty telling them apart.

Identify both the actresses.(pic on the next slide)

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Keira Knightly.Natalie Portman.The character being Padme, in Star Wars.

Scores???

Pick Your Pill16 topics to choose

from. Yes, 16.If you get it right, +10.

If wrong or no attempt, -5. You CHOSE it.

For other teams who pounce, it’s +10/-10.

Let the game begin.

TopicsLiteratureEtymologyModern historyArtsMoviesGeology/geographyAwardsGamesTechnologyMusic

Current affairsBusiness & financeMonumentsIndiaSportsCartoon/comics

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In simple words, connect.

What did these two people transact; though not ‘literally’ but ‘literaturally’?

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Robin Sharma: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Ravi Subramanian: I Bought The Monk’s Ferrari

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Id the term/phrase.

In printing presses, when a day’s paper was set, it was encased in a frame called the flange. It represented the final, edited copy of the paper.

However, if news of extremely high priority arrived, then it could only be accommodated by destroying the flange. This was considered to be an honor to the reporter who actually got the story.

What phrase originates out of this custom?

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Breaking news.

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What is the significance?

“I just sat there for a moment and pondered the courage and tenacity that is part of our very recent history, but is also a part of that long line of folks -- sometimes nameless, oftentimes didn't make the history books -- but who constantly insisted on their dignity, their stake in the American Dream.”

Barack Obama said this during a visit to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan in April 2012.

What is the significance of the event/pic?(pic on the next slide)

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Rosa Parks incident.The bus he is sitting in is an integral part of

the civil rights movement in the USA. In 1955 (when blacks were segregated from whites and given lesser status), a lady named Rosa Parks refused to vacate her seat in this bus for a white passenger. This act inspired many others in their struggle.

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Easy one. Artist?

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Banksy.

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Credits of which movie?

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Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire.

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By what popular name is this site known as?

The site was identified by Soviet scientists in 1971. While drilling, large quantities of methane gas were released, creating an environmental problem and posing a potential danger to the people of the nearby villages.

Fearing the release of further poisonous gases from the cavern, the scientists decided to burn it off. At that time, expectations were that the gas would burn within days, but it is still burning, four decades after it was set on fire.

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The Door to Hell.Turkmenistan. Back

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X Y?

The prize was originally known as the Y-McConnell Prize, after the company Y-McConnell began sponsoring the event in 1968; it became commonly known as the “Y Prize" or simply "the Y“.

When administration of the prize was transferred to the Y Prize Foundation in 2002, the title sponsor became the investment company X Group, which opted to retain “Y" as part of the official title of the prize.

Hence, it is now known as X Y Prize.

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What?

DMA Design (now known by a different name) was working on a racing game called Race and Chase. The idea was "to produce a fun, addictive and fast multi-player car racing and crashing game".

As far as the play testers were concerned, the game sucked, except for one glitch which made the police in the game go crazy for no reason. Instead of politely pulling you over, the cops would ram you off the road as their AI was accidentally trying to drive through the player. Suddenly everyone was crashing non-stop. (contd.)

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What?

Play testers thought this was freaking hilarious, and in fact abandoned the missions just to screw around and see what kind of mayhem they could cause. The designers decided to not only leave the psychotic cops in there, but build the entire game around the kind of ridiculously violent car chases caused by the glitch.

What did this lead to?

(Courtesy: Tamal Dutta)

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Which product?

Samsung galaxy s3 is sold 60 million pieces.Apple iPhone 3GS is sold 35 million pieces.Motorola RAZR V3 is sold 130 million pieces.

With a huge margin, which product tops the list with more than 250 million pieces sold till today?

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Nokia 1100.

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Id the “ex-monument”.

X Y were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Y carved into the side of a cliff in the X valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2,500 meters.

They were dynamited and destroyed in March 2001 by the Taliban, on orders from leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, after the Taliban government declared that they were idols.

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Bamiyan buddhas.

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Who?

His family had originally hailed from Tumuluru in Guntur District. He was also known as Ramalinga, a Shaiva name. There is a conflict on going in between mahamantri Thimmarusu and Ramalinga as thimmarusu is vaishnava and he is shiva. It is believed that he later converted to Vaishnavism. His most famous work, Panduranga Mahatyamu, is dedicated to god Panduranga, a form of Vishnu, whose main temple stands at Pandharpur in Maharashtra. He died due to a snake-bite. He was one of the ashtadiggaja's.

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Tenaliraman.

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Exhaustive list. Connect.

Francisco Lazaro (Portugal), Marathon (1912, Stockholm)

Nicolae Berechet (Romania), Boxing (1936, Berlin)

Knut Jensen (Denmark), Cycling (1960, Rome)

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People who died in competition at the Olympics.

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Who created this campaign?

Campaign.

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Reserve Bank of India - Paisa bolta hai.

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What’s omitted from the tombstone?

Blanc's will stated his desire to have the inscription on his gravestone.

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Who is the singer?

Song.

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Sona Mohapatra.

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Why current affairs?

This 2006 Canadian film is based on a short story "The Bear Came over the Mountain", from a 2001 collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage. It was nominated for Academy award for best adapted screenplay.

Why is it in news again?(Enough hint in the

question. Read again.)

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The film is based on Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came over the Mountain", from the 2001 collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.

She is the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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That’s not all, folks.Hope to see you soon.

Hail Sherlock Holmes.