Fresher's Quiz 2017 @ Thapar University

FRESHER’S QUIZ2017

Thapar Quizzing Club, Literary Society

Thapar University

WELCOMEtotQc

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RULES OF THE GAME

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● Teams of upto 3.

● 48 questions. 5 rounds.

● 1 Bonus Question in the end.

● Marking scheme would be explained before each round.

● Questions are in Infinite Pounce format.

● For pounce, raise your hand and one of the QM’s will come to you. You could also shout ‘pounce’ calmly.

● Clichéd rule but need to put it here. No Googling.

“ Pressing buzzers are like proposing to a girl ... you must do it fast, or others will take that chance.

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- True experience of several tQc folks

Pounce and BounceAppetizers

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10 Clockwise – 10 Anti Clockwise

20 Questions

QUESTION 1

●This is a form of alternative medicine originating from China.

●This massage therapy called myofascial decompression has been characterized as pseudoscience since there are no evidence that it does any benefit for the body.

●Jennifer Aniston and Gwyneth Paltrow somewhat introduced this to the Western world back in 2004.

●In 2016, a certain individual was in full display of its effects on a world stage which brought the limelight back to it. What is it?

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* Slide intentionally left blank *

AND THE ANSWER IS…

Cupping Technique

Michael Phelps in the Rio Olympics 2016

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QUESTION 2

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●This is a slow cinema film without any actors, dialogue or narrative. This eight-hour film features hundreds of sheep simply standing in fields with very little movements.

●Identify the name of the movie from the poster.

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Baa Baa Land

Here’s to the one who dream… of sheep.

QUESTION 3

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●Which company’s logo is actually the cross section of the motor it uses?

● The logo is referring to the main body as representing one of the poles that stick out of a motor's rotor, with the second line representing a section of the stator.

●This logo is designed by RO-Studio, a design firm.

Hint next slide

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Tesla Inc

QUESTION 4

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●‘What's new’ was the early concept for the website's name which later led to the creation of the mascot which is actually the shortened version of the phrase.

●The mascot is described as genderless, timeless and digitless.

●Name the mascot. (The website will not fetch points)

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Snoo, the Alien

The mascot of Reddit.

QUESTION 5

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●Described as an ‘important member of the Wimbledon family’, Rufus is doing a certain job for the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club for the past 10 years.

●He works with Imogen Davis, director of Avian Environmental Consultants who is also his social media manager.

●What is his nature of job?

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Scarer of birds

Rufus is the tournament’s official bird scarer, tasked with frightening pigeons away from the courts.

QUESTION 6

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●Amsterdam’s Eenmaal was an experimental pop up restaurant that was launched in June 2013 and aimed to break a social taboo.

●One visitor summed up the concept behind Eenmaal particularly well by commenting, 'this restaurant transforms an uncomfortable situation into something comfortable’.

●This is believed to be one of the world’s first restaurant catering to a certain kind of diners. Who are they?

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Solo Diners

It aims to break the social taboo associated with eating alone.

QUESTION 7

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●The following is from a patent for a shoe created by a very famous person who aimed to recreate a step live on stage.

●The shoes were patented in 1992 and the mechanism of the step was kept a secret until that person died.

●What is it about?

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Michael Jackson’s 45 degree lean

This gravity defying step was a part of the Smooth Criminals video.

QUESTION 8

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●The original vision of the creator of this service was to create a tool that would help employees provide unfiltered feedback to their employers.

●He realized that friends may want to provide constructive feedback as well so he launched this service in November, 2016 and his ultimate goal was 1,000 feedbacks.

●But that was not successful enough. So inspired by Malcolm Gladwell’s Tipping Point he used the connectors concept (people who knew everyone).

●This service however became the talking point world over when Snapchat rolled out an update that lets users share links to website inside the snaps.

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Rise in popularity after the Snapchat update

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Sarahah

Sarahah means honesty or frankness in Arabic.

QUESTION 9

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●Which Indian concept is this book and Venn Diagram referring to?

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Jugaad

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●This word which means a massive, inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path comes from Hindi.

●Its origin lies in Jagganath, a Hindu god, the Lord of the World.

●The city of Puri in eastern India is the site of an annual festival in his honor at which the image of the god is carried on a gigantic wheeled vehicle 45 feet high drawn through the streets by pilgrims. It was said (mostly inaccurately) that fanatical followers would throw themselves under the wheels.

●This image contributed to the meaning of the word in English. What is the word?

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The Rath Yatra in Puri

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Juggernaut

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●Alappuzha, also known as Alleppey, is the administrative headquarters of Alappuzha District of Kerala state of southern India.

●It is famous for its exotic backwaters, beaches, temples and spa centres. It is also famous for its numerous rivers crisscrossing the Sea and is home to many canals, backwaters, beaches and lagoons.

●It has also been given an epithet which likens it to someplace else. What?

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The Backwaters of Kerala

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Venice of the East

QUESTION 12

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●The Four Asian Tigers, or Four Asian Dragons are high-tech, industrialized nations and have become top-level education centres. The role of Confucianism has also been used to explain the success of these countries, due to the implied work ethic.

●Two of these countries are South Korea and Hong Kong (China). Name the other two. (Part points for each)

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Singapore and Taiwan

QUESTION 13

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●Which person from the world of the world of architecture is this TIME cover honouring?

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Buckminster Fuller

He popularized the geodesic dome and Carbon 60 molecule was named in honour of him -fullerene

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●Cubism is an early 20th century art movement, considered to be the bridge leading to the 20th century Modern Art. In Cubist artwork, objects are broken up, analyzed, and restructured in an abstract form; so instead of a single viewpoint, the subject can instead be represented in a greater context.

●Two famous artists are known to have pioneered this era of art. One of them is George Braque. Who is the other one?

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Pablo Picasso

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●X is Thailand's leading travel retail group, based in Bangkok. The company is the largest duty-free retailer in the country.

●X bought Y for 39m pound in 2010 and loaned it 100m pound for various tasks and waived off this loan in 2014 when it did quite good in its field.

●This investment proved to be huge when Y did something exceptional in 2015 for which they had odds of 5000 to 1.

●ID X and Y

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X – King Power

Y – Leicester City FC

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●Renard Numbers is a system of preferred numbers proposed by Charles Renard, a French Army Engineer in the 1870’s. In it the interval from 1 to 10 is divided into 5,10,20 or 40 steps.

●Preferred Numbers are standard guidelines for choosing product dimensions/specifications used in the industry.

●Certain institutions follow a variation of the RN series in which 1:10 is divided into 3 steps – 1,2,5 to simplify the nature of a certain job.

●This theory has been the reason behind which act, which was termed as ‘adding the missing link’?

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Introduction of the ₹200 note

It is the missing link between ₹100 and ₹1000.

This series already had ₹100 and ₹500.

QUESTION 17

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●This structure was commissioned by the French President in 1984 and designed by architect I.M.Pei.

●People did not like this new addition to an existing landmark - thought that its modernist style was inconsistent with the French Renaissance style and the shape being an unsuitable symbol of death from ancient Egypt.

●Critics even questioned that the architect I.M. Pei was insufficiently French to be entrusted with the task of updating a treasured Parisian landmark.

●Which structure?

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The Louvre Pyramid

It is the entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris.

QUESTION 18

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●This paradox occurs when a group of people collectively decide on a course of action that is in absolute counter to the preferences of many (or all) the individuals in that group.

●The members mistakenly believe that their personal preference is opposite to that of the group, and therefore do not raise objections. A common phrase relating to it is a desire not to "rock the boat".

●This term was introduced by management expert Jerry B. Harvey in his 1974 article. Name the paradox.

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The Abilene Paradox

QUESTION 19

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●This is a popular belief that the First War of Indian Independence was fought in 1857. However, the first recorded revolt against the British took place in 1806 in town in South India. The cause of the revolt was the ban on religious marks on the forehead of Hindu soldiers and the forced shaving off of the beards of the Muslim soldiers by the Madras Army.

●Another reason was the presence of Tipu Sultan’s family, whom the sepoys thought would lead the revolt.

●Name this town whose name means the place where the Hindu god Murugan appeared to attack his enemies.

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Vellore

In Tamil, the word vel means spear that is seen as the weapon of Hindu god Murugan and oor means place.

QUESTION 20

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●The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) is a bimonthly magazine devoted to scientific humor, in the form of a satirical take on the standard academic journal.

●Since 1991, this magazine holds an annual ritual in autumn to celebrate ten ‘achievements’ in scientific research. ‘The Stinker’ is the official mascot.

●What is the ritual which is given to honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think?

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Ig Nobel Prizes

These prizes are parody of the Nobel Prizes.

Written Round5 Topics, 10 questions – Are you Game?

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Technology

Literature

Sports

Food

Film & Music

QUESTION 21

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●At the request of a customer in the Cricket Club of India, Bombay Nelson Wang, a Chinese from Calcutta, who worked as a caterer created this dish which has become synonymous with Chinese food in India.

●He started by taking the basic ingredients of an Indian dish, namely chopped garlic, ginger, and green chilis, but next, instead of adding garam masala, he put in soy sauce instead, followed by cornstarch and the chicken itself; the result was the now-famous dish.

●What is it?

Food

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Food

●Print advertisement for which product?

QUESTION 23

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●This is an Indian publishing company, founded in Kolkata in 1936. The logo of this company was designed by Satyajit Ray, who asked for just a ‘few books’ as his fee.

●They have published all of Chetan Bhagat’s books, and some of Ruskin Bond’s books. Identify the publisher.

Literature

QUESTION 24

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●This English author is one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century.

● His most popular characters include millionaire Bertie Wooster, the immaculate Psmith and the wise-cracking butler Jeeves. Name the author.

Literature

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●In 2012 when this software giant was about to unveil a new product, they thought of redesigning its logo which would reflect their new design language-Metro used in the product.

●Pentagram was chosen as the design agency and during one of its meeting with the executives of the company, Paula Scher asked one question which left the company baffled.

● Your name is _______. Why are you a flag?

● So the company did less of a re-design and more to return it to its original meaning and bringing _______ back to its roots.

Tech

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●Its story starts with the Latin term Libra Pondo, meaning “pound in weight” which was abbreviated to lb. When lb became standard, it was often drawn with a little bar across the tops of both letters to show it was connected.

●Its meaning began to bifurcate - In chess, it represents a move that results in checkmate. In proofreading, it means a space should be inserted. On Swedish maps, it represents a lumber yard.

●This is the history behind which commonly used thing on social media?

Tech

Hint next slide

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This is a manuscript written by Newton which shows one of the early version.

QUESTION 27

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●Sonam Wangchuk is an engineer from one of the distant regions from India who won the prestigious Rolex Award for Enterprise in 2016.

●He won it for his innovation Ice Stupas, which is an ingenious idea to build artificial glaciers at lower altitudes using pipes, gravity and night temperatures could transform an arid landscape into an oasis.

●His story is one of the most inspirational stories ever and has been loosely the inspiration behind a certain well known character. Who?

F & M

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QUESTION 28

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●To honour whom has The Pantone Colour Institute developed a new shade of colour called Love Symbol #2?

●This person from the world of music began using his name as Love Symbol #2 in 1993. However, since only a few knew how to pronounce his name correctly he switched back to his original name.

●The creation of this colour is inspired from the late music icon’s custom made Yamaha piano. The color pays tribute to his mark on music, art, fashion and culture, according to a press release from the artist's estate.

F & M

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The Colour

Custom Yamaha Piano

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QUESTION 29

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●The origin of the scoring system of this sport is unknown. One plausible hypothesis points to a French origin since in the early middle ages, 60 was a very key number in France in the same way that 100 is today. That's why the words for seventy, eighty and ninety in French are based on sixty.

●Also at that time there was a coin in circulation called a "gros denier tournois" which was worth 15 deniers. So the public could bet on the game using this coin and going to sixty.

●Which sport?

Sports

QUESTION 30

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●Atlanta Hawks are a professional basketball team based from Atlanta, Georgia in the NBA.

●Their logo has been popularly nicknamed after its resemblance to something. What ?

Sports

Answers

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Exchange your sheets

QUESTION 21

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●At the request of a customer in the Cricket Club of India, Bombay Nelson Wang, a Chinese from Calcutta, who worked as a caterer created this dish which has become synonymous with Chinese food in India.

●He started by taking the basic ingredients of an Indian dish, namely chopped garlic, ginger, and green chilis, but next, instead of adding garam masala, he put in soy sauce instead, followed by cornstarch and the chicken itself; the result was the now-famous dish.

●What is it?

Food


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Chicken Manchurian

QUESTION 22

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Food

●Print advertisement for which product?


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Nutella

QUESTION 23

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●This is an Indian publishing company, founded in Kolkata in 1936. The logo of this company was designed by Satyajit Ray, who asked for just a ‘few books’ as his fee.

●They have published all of Chetan Bhagat’s books, and some of Ruskin Bond’s books. Identify the publisher.

Literature


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Rupa Publications

QUESTION 24

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●This English author is one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century.

● His most popular characters include millionaire Bertie Wooster, the immaculate Psmith and the wise-cracking butler Jeeves. Name the author.

Literature


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P.G. Wodehouse

QUESTION 25

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●In 2012 when this software giant was about to unveil a new product, they thought of redesigning its logo which would reflect their new design language-Metro used in the product.

●Pentagram was chosen as the design agency and during one of its meeting with the executives of the company, Paula Scher asked one question which left the company baffled.

● Your name is _______. Why are you a flag?

● So the company did less of a re-design and more to return it to its original meaning and bringing _______ back to its roots.

Tech


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Windows logo

QUESTION 26

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●Its story starts with the Latin term Libra Pondo, meaning “pound in weight” which was abbreviated to lb. When lb became standard, it was often drawn with a little bar across the tops of both letters to show it was connected.

●Its meaning began to bifurcate - In chess, it represents a move that results in checkmate. In proofreading, it means a space should be inserted. On Swedish maps, it represents a lumber yard.

●This is the history behind which commonly used thing on social media?

Tech

Hint next slide


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The Octothorpe Symbol

Octothorpe—“octo” because it has eight points, and “thorpe” because of football hero Jim Thorpe.

QUESTION 27

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●Sonam Wangchuk is an engineer from one of the distant regions from India who won the prestigious Rolex Award for Enterprise in 2016.

●He won it for his innovation Ice Stupas, which is an ingenious idea to build artificial glaciers at lower altitudes using pipes, gravity and night temperatures could transform an arid landscape into an oasis.

●His story is one of the most inspirational stories ever and has been loosely the inspiration behind a certain well known character. Who?

F & M


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Phunsukh Wangdu

From 3 Idiots

QUESTION 28

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●To honour whom has The Pantone Colour Institute developed a new shade of colour called Love Symbol #2?

●This person from the world of music began using his name as Love Symbol #2 in 1993. However, since only a few knew how to pronounce his name correctly he switched back to his original name.

●The creation of this colour is inspired from the late music icon’s custom made Yamaha piano. The color pays tribute to his mark on music, art, fashion and culture, according to a press release from the artist's estate.

F & M

Hint next slide


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Prince

His full name is Prince Rogers Nelson.

QUESTION 29

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●The origin of the scoring system of this sport is unknown. One plausible hypothesis points to a French origin since in the early middle ages, 60 was a very key number in France in the same way that 100 is today. That's why the words for seventy, eighty and ninety in French are based on sixty.

●Also at that time there was a coin in circulation called a "gros denier tournois" which was worth 15 deniers. So the public could bet on the game using this coin and going to sixty.

●Which sport?

Sports


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Tennis

Originally it was 15, 30, 45 and 60. Later 45 got simplified to 40.

QUESTION 30

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●Atlanta Hawks are a professional basketball team based from Atlanta, Georgia in the NBA.

●Their logo has been popularly nicknamed after its resemblance to something. What ?

Sports


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Pacman

Vintage is GoldWritten Part 2

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6 Questions

QUESTION 31

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QUESTION 32

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QUESTION 33

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QUESTION 34

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QUESTION 35

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QUESTION 36

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Answers

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Exchange your sheets

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Facebook


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Skype


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Twitter


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YouTube


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Instagram

Long ConnectGot the Patience?

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4 Questions

All Correct - +10

Connect on Bounce will be given in each Q

QUESTION 37

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●A 20-year old singer came into Henry Hane’s tattoo shop. She wanted a tattoo of her Father’s mom, Cynthia who was also a singer. She already had a few tattoos, including a Native American feather on her forearm, an image of cartoon character Betty Boop on her lower back and an Egyptian ankh symbol between her shoulder blades.

●Hate tried to emulate the old-fashioned look of the images she had picked. “I didn’t realize at the time it would be one of the most recognized tattoos on the planet,” he said. “Of course, I don’t get any money from it, although it is always being reproduced everywhere.”

●Who is this personality who got this famous tattoo made?

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Amy Winehouse

QUESTION 38

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●"Craigslist" is a song and single by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a style parody of Y, and contains lyrics inspired by postings at the online classified advertising service, Craigslist.

●Yankovic described the idea of the song coming about thinking how it would be "anachronistically weird" for X to scream about Craigslist.

●Give me X.

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Jim Morrison

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●Sadgasm was a grunge band formed by Homer Simpson during the 1990s. The band was originally formed in the 1990s as an inoffensive, urban light, hip hop, smooth grooves outfit.

●After Homer sees Marge and one of her professors from her university together, Homer changes the band's direction into a wholly different type of music: Guitar Rock Utilizing Nihilist Grunge Energy or "grunge". The band is then named Sadgasm.

●This is a short clip of their song ‘Shave Me’. I need the band which was most likely the inspiration behind Sadgasm and also who is the inspiration behind Homer’s character.

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Kurt Cobain

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●Last month, Fender officially launched a series of new artist signature models, one of which is based on the guitar X used during one of his most famous performances. He concluded the performance by sacrificing the guitar in a way.

●Fender created the model to honor the 50th anniversary of that iconic performance, which permanently altered the course of rock music.

●X is quoted as saying, "The time I ______ my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar." Who is X here?

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Jimi Hendrix

Connect?Write it down

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Part of the 27 Club

It is a notional roll of remembrance, celebrating popular musicians who died at the age of

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Short and SimpleThe Quickie

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Pounce - +20/-10

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Bounce - +10

8 Questions

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●Contrary to what people think, this spice is not named after the word for sugar, but instead is a corruption of an Arabic term for “Wood from China”.

●What favourite addition to Biryanis is this?

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Dal Chini

From Darr-e-chini, i.e wood from China.

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●As per research scholars, this gentleman got his popular nickname from the fact that he used to practice a lot under the moonlit sky.

●Who was he?

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Dhyan Chand

QUESTION 43

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●The General Electric plant in Schenectady has the ZIP Code 12345. Coincidentally it shares the code with a special place due to which it receives a lot of letters.

●Its workers during that time devote their lunch break to respond to these letters.

●Why?

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It gets letters from children during Christmas.

North Pole has the same ZIP Code and children address their letters to Santa to 12345.

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●These are buildings in Hong Kong.

●Why are there gaps/holes in them?

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To allow Dragons to pass through.

Legend holds that dragons live in the mountains and hold positive and powerful energy. This energy blows through Hong Kong daily as the dragons make their way from the mountains to the sea to drink and bathe.

QUESTION 45

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●This is the logo of an organization in Canada which improve the quality of life of certain group

of people.

●Which group?

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Alzheimer’s Disease

The Alzheimer Society's Forget me not symbol represents memory loss, a key symptom of Alzheimer’s disease.

QUESTION 46

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●Which anniversary is this Google Doodle celebrating?

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First Expedition to South Pole

The doodle appeared on 14th December, 2016 and it marks the 105th anniversary of expedition was led by the Roald Amundsen to reach the South Pole.

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●In the late 1990’s BMW equipped its 5 Series cars with GPS. The company wasflooded with calls from angry German men and as a result of which it had to recall its navigation systems and made some changes.

●What made the customers furious?

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The GPS was voiced by a woman and the men did not want to take directions from a woman.

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●The Netherlands woman national football team like the men’s had this as the crest logo on their shirts.

●In July 2017 some change was madewhich was heralded across the world.

●People called it a great move; simple but fantastic and badass.

●What change was made?

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The Lion was changed to Lioness

“BONUS QUESTION

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Happy Accidents of the Swing or simply The Swing is a famous painting by Jean-Honore Fragonard. The painting captures the joyous and carefree attitude typical of rococo art.When she was designing the first concept art for X, artist Lisa Keene made her own digital version of The Swing because she felt that the painting matched the character. In Y, The Swing makes another appearance during a song where the character mimic’s the same pose.ID X and Y.

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X – TangledY – Frozen

CREDITS

● Abhinav Choudhary

● Mokshlakshmi Bhan

● Omisha Sharma

● Rajenki Das

● Soham Banerjee

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● Abhishek Jain

● Harjas Singh Bami

● S Rishiraj

Special thanks to -

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THANK YOU!

EXTRA QUESTION 1

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●X were ships used for a very specific activity. These kind of ships were very important during the major wars, i.e. WW2, Korean War and The Gulf War. But they were operational after the wars too.

●One might’ve heard X in a very different context. First officially released as part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack 1 in 1990, it was included in the standard install of Windows 3.1 in 1992, replacing Reversi from Windows 3.0. In Windows 8 and later X is not included, but Microsoft Studios published an updated version of it, developed by Arkadium, on Windows Store.

●What is X?

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Minesweeper

EXTRA QUESTION 2

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●Tata has entered the contraceptive business with a new product, targeting truckers of India. They aim to increase awareness about family planning and safe sex through this company.

●For this, they named their company in a very strategic way, making a pun on something which is usually present on all trucks.


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Use Dipper at Night

EXTRA QUESTION 3

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●Moby Dick is a novel written by Herman Melville during the period of American Renaissance. It follows the story of Captain Ahab, who is set for seeking revenge on Moby Dick, a whale, for having bitten his leg off.

●Name the whaling ship that Captain Ahab commandeers during his quest.


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Pequod

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