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2. Rules Thou might find some hints from some of thetitles of the questions. Thou shalt scribe your answers legibly. Thou shalt not question the QMs KQ ! Thou shalt find a partner or else go solo. Thou shalt mention your names/Team nameQuiz (etymology acc. to one school of thought) : (Latin)Qui es, meaning "Who are you? 3. 1. (Are IQs normally distributed?) X is a best-selling and controversial 1994 book by theHarvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein andAmerican Enterprise Institute political scientist CharlesMurray. According to Charles Murray, When the late RichardHerrnstein and I published X eleven years ago, thefurore over its discussion of ethnic differences in IQwas so intense that most people who have not readthe book still think it was about race. Since then, I havedeliberately not published anything about groupdifferences in IQ, mostly to give the real topic of Xthe role of intelligence in reshaping Americas classstructurea chance to surface. Identify X 4. Ans The Bell Curve 5. 2. (It takes three to tango!) Whose organization chart? 6. Ans. Triad structure (Triad Society) describes many branches of Chinese criminalorganizations based in HongKong, Vietnam, Macau, Taiwan, China, andalso in countries with significant Chinesepopulations The famous movie Infernal affairs deals withthe triads of Hong Kong 7. 3. (Bloody Job!)In Anglo-Indian English, the term X referred to any festivalor entertainment, but especially ceremonies of theMourning of Muharram. In origin the term is a corruptionby British soldiers of "Ya Hasan! Ya Hosain!" which isrepeatedly cried by Shia Muslims as they beat their cheststhroughout the procession of the Muharram. Yule andBurnell were looking for a catchy title for their work of aglossary and decided upon this since it was a "typical anddelightful example" of the type of the highlydomesticated words in the dictionary and at the sametime conveyed "a veiled intimation of dual authorship".What is X? 8. Ans Hobson-Jobson: a historicaldictionary of Anglo-Indian words andterms from Indianlanguages whichcame into useduring the Britishrule of India 9. 4.(QED) Connect 10. Ans All are winners of The Fields Medal, (officiallyknown as International Medal for OutstandingDiscoveries in Mathematics) 11. 5. (Magna Opera) Maradona and Sachin Tendulkar belong to anexclusive club of sportspeople with respect toa literature aspect. What is it? 12. Ans Only two sportsman to have been honouredwith an Opus published on their story Kraken Opus is a publishing company whichproduces premium, outsized editions onsubjects including sports teams and celebrities, and on broader topics 13. 6.Funda? 14. Ans A snapshot of the menufrom El Bulli (,a Michelin3-star restaurant near thetown ofRoses, Catalonia, Spain, run by celebrated chefFerran Adri. It has beendescribed as "the mostimaginative generator ofhaute cuisine on theplanet and rated thebest restaurant! 15. 7. (The good, the bad and therevolutionary!)You must have heard of Spaghetti Westerns but what is the namegiven to the subgenre of Italian "Spaghetti Westerns" (dating from themid 1960s to early 1970s), which were set in and around Mexico anddealt with overtly political themes? 16. Ans Zapata Westerns after the Mexicanrevolutionary :Emiliano Zapata Salazar 17. 8.(Word Play anyone?) Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to life .Which company has this slogan? 18. Ans BenQ Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to life 19. 9 . Connect to a marketing technique 20. Ans Guerilla marketing : an unconventional system ofpromotions that relies on time, energy andimagination rather than a big marketing budget. In the words of the Father of GuerrillaMarketing, Jay Conrad Levinson, this describesguerrilla marketing: "Im referring to the soul and essence of guerrillamarketing which remain as always -- achievingconventional goals, such as profits and joy, withunconventional methods, such as investingenergy instead of money. 21. 10. Exclusive list of two German songs .Funda? 22. Ans. Only Beatles songs to be recorded in a foreignlanguage by them 23. 11.(War is Raw) Logicomix is a comic book about the questfor logical certainty in mathematics. The storyspans the decades from the late 19th centuryto World War II, a period when the nature ofmathematical truth was being furiouslydebated.The main protagonist of the story is X. Who is X? 24. Ans Bertrand Russel 25. 12. (Go,ogle at these!) 26. Ans Google doodle 27. 13.(Be afraid, be very afraid!) This phrase originates from a 1996 book, X and Y:Achieving Rapid Dominance by Harlan Ullman andJames Wade and published by the US National DefenseUniversity. According to the book:To affect the will of the adversary, Rapid Dominance willapply a variety of approaches and techniques to achievethe necessary level of X and Y at the appropriate strategicand military leverage points. This means thatpsychological and intangible, as well as physical andconcrete effects beyond the destruction of enemy forcesand supporting military infrastructure, will have to beachieved. 28. Ans Shock and Awe 29. 14. ConnectThe hues of youth upon a brow of woe,which Man deemed old two thousand years ago,match me such marvel save in Eastern clime,a rose-red city half as old as time.--John William Burgon 30. Song 31. Ans Petra in Jordan Song by Petra (the Christian rock band) 32. 15.(Is Calypso cricket burning?) Identify the guy! 33. Ans Chris Gayle at the premier of Fire in Babylon 34. 16. (It takes a lot to tonga!)Funda? 35. Ans Historic Picture shows how the first satellitedish in the country that helped a technologycompany set up round-the-clockcommunication link with its US offices arrivedon a bullock-driven cart in 1985 in Millers roadoffice, Bangalore of Texas Instruments .It helped TI become the first multinational toset up a software design centre in India andpioneer the countrys IT revolution 25 yearsago. 36. 17 . A, B and C are in fact related to each otherAs words: "I Invented and designed Cricket Max becauseI felt it was time to provide to our spectatorsand TV viewers a game of cricket that wasshort in duration, very colourful, kept someold traditions and highlighted the best skills inthe game." "Kerry Packer sure did change the game backin the 70s, but now it`s time for Cricket Max totake the excitement of cricket through to thenext century." 37. B is connected with this guy. 38. C started his own career in SouthAustralia, where he played with considerablesuccess from 1977 and 1982. In 2004 he becamean ICC match referee. 39. Ans A- Martin Crowe B-Russel Crowe (that guy is John F Nash-subject of A Beautiful Mind) C- Jeff Crowe 40. 18 . Connect 41. Ans Venice Italy Cosa nostra (Our thing) mafia of Sicily Mediterranean sea map Still from Sound of Music shot in Salzburg, Austria Rubiks cube : Hungarian Horror Turkey Greece crisis Japan crisis Great Wall of China 42. So the connection is the popular nursery rhyme:Long legged Italy,Kicked poor Sicily,Right into the Middle,Of the Mediterranean Sea,Austria was Hungary,Took a bit of Turkey,Dipped it in Greece,Fried it in Japan,And ate it off in China. 43. 19. (Vedanta Resources mines iron ore)The X is also the first Indic text to mention Iron(as yma ayas, literally "black metal"), so thatscholarly consensus dates the bulk of the Xhymns to the early Indian IronAge, corresponding to the 12th to 10thcenturies BC or the early Kuru kingdom. 44. Ans Atharva Veda 45. 20. (Yeh sab public he!) Connect 46. AnsLoki Norse mythology : God of fire Bottle Gourd: loki in Hindi IIMK shared drive