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• 25 Questions• Q no. 21 to 25 are starred questions• In case of a tie, starred questions will be considered

first.• If the tie still persists, sudden death from the 1st

question.• Top 6 teams will qualify for the finals.• No Googling!!

Happy Quizzing..!!

ID this cricketer known for his non-cricketing achievements.

1.

Jawaharlal Nehru

2.

Connect!

Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan Road

_____ is the act of accidentally or purposely putting oneself into the view of a photograph, often in order to play a practical joke on the photographer or the subjects.

3.

ID

Give me the word originating through the 2 answers which was a trending twitter topic

• Benedict Cumberbatch• Photobombing

• CumberBombing

According to Robert Scoble, X succeeded in combining attributes of Twitter, Facebook, Google Wave and similar websites that are based on a system of users voting up content. Scoble later criticized X for being a "horrid service for blogging," and although a decent website, not substantially better than competitors. The Daily Telegraph has predicted that X will become larger than Twitter, and along with Airbnb and Dropbox, it has been named among the next generation of multibillion dollar start-ups by the New York Times.

4.

In 1904, Gus Mears acquired an athletics stadium with the aim of turning it into a football stadium. An offer to lease it to the nearby Fulham was turned down. Mears opted to start his own club to use the stadium & thus a new club was born on 10 March 1905 at “THE RISING SUN PUB”. The club took their first European honour in 1971 with a win over Real Madrid in Athens. In 2013, IFFHS ranked it the best club in the world replacing Barcelona. Identify this famous football club.

5.

Chelsea

6.

The word “X" is an anglicized version of the Scandinavian Blåtand, the epithet of the tenth-century king Harald I of Denmark and parts of Norway who united dissonant Danish tribes into a single kingdom. The idea of this name was proposed in 1997 by Jim Kardach. Its logo is a bind rune merging the Younger Futhark runes (Hagall) and (Bjarkan)

What is X..??

Bluetooth

7.

Minimalist poster for??

The Truman Show

X is the nickname of a football match played in Round 2 of the 2006 FIFA World Cup between Portugal and the Netherlands on 25 June 2006. Russian referee Valentin Ivanov issued a FIFA World Cup record 4 red cards and 16 yellow cards, setting a new record for cards shown at any FIFA-administered international tournament.

8.

Battle of Nuremberg

Launched in august 2006, it is an online travel company backed by investors – Norwest Venture Partners, Anil Ambani’s group Reliance Capital, Network 18 & Intel Capital, the strategic investment arm of Intel. Which online travel portal are we referring to..?

9.

10.

ID the Logo

11.

How do we better know the Birla Tata AT&T Ltd. also called as BATATA?

12.

Connect!!

12.

Automobile brands owned by Volkswagen

13.

Name the Presidents in the following monument

• George Washington• Thomas Jefferson • Theodore Roosevelt• Abraham Lincoln

14.

How do we better know the person on the right?

The Kissing Sailor

Which watch brand is advertised with slogan “It takes a licking and keeps on ticking"?

15.

During prohibition, bootleggers would transport whiskey from the Appalachian region. The cars used by the drivers for transporting this illicit booze would be specially modified for speed to outrun the police on the twisty mountain roads. The repeal of Prohibition in 1993 dried up some of this business. Addicted to the speed & high of driving these cars, what did these drivers start?

16.

Nascar

17.

The front and rear fuselage are manufactured in Hamburg, the wings are manufactured at Broughton in North Wales, belly and tail sections are manufactured in Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA in Cádiz in southern Spain, and assembled in Toulouse.

What?

Airbus A380

18.

The official mascot of the 2014 FIFA World Cup

Give me its name.

Fuleco

19.

Which product’s codename during development wasProject Normandy?

Nokia X

20.

ID the band.

#sitter

The Doors

21*.

Connect!

Unfortunate members of the 27 Club

i.e., all have died at the age of 27

22*.

• Actor (Male) - Akshay Kumar• Actor (Female) - Sonakshi Sinha• Film – Joker• Song - Chinta ta Chita Chita

Winners of what awards?

Golden Kela Awards

23*.

Three students from Helsinki University of technology, Niklas Hed, Jarno Vakevainen & Kim Dikert participated in a mobile game development competition & won the competition. As a result of their victory, they decided to set-up their own game-making company. They received their first round of funding & soon released a game they had been working on. In less than three years, this game has been downloaded over a billion times.

What game did they release?

24*.

Y was the nickname of X given by the actor Ashok Kumar because he could cry in five different notes when he was a child. He went on to become one of the greatest music directors being nominated 18 times for Filmfare awards

Give me X and Y

X – R. D. Burman

Y - Pancham da

25*.

India after Gandhi is a book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha, which won the 2011 Sahitya Akademi Award for English. His book published in 2012 can be considered a prequel in literary terms.

Name the book

Gandhi Before India