PRELIMS!

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS• Abhineet and Ishank for help with the

questions and the presentation.• Dey for the sexy poster.• Menon for the support and encouragement,

btw he has graciously agreed to take all blame if the quiz is a disaster.

• Our great, glorious leader, the quiz club’s guiding sun ray, President Mudaliar, Tiger and everyone else at Inquisition for giving rank novices like us a chance to show off.

RULES

• The quizmasters are always right.• For the duration of the quiz, the quizmasters

are the smartest, wisest and most handsome people on earth.

• Questions 16-20 are starred, be sure to mark them on your sheets, they will be used to break a tie.

KEH KE DENGE…..

ANSWERS

According to Dhoni, who did God create?

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Who does this amul ad commemorate?2

PRAN

3 “X will be my biggest hit, it will be Vashuji’s biggest hit, it will be UTV’s biggest hit. It is my open challenge to everyone.”- Y ”Y’s potpourri of excessive melodrama, puerile humor, cartoonish action, and garish songs plods on for two-and-a-half hours with little concern for your bladder or your mental health.”- Rajeev MasandX tanked at the box office. Id X and Y.

HIMMATWALA, SAJID KHAN

• As we all know this is a song from the movie ‘Delhi-6’.It actually is a folk song of a particular state.Which state?

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CHATTISGARH

The following is an excerpt from one of Kaifi Azmi’s poems, which historical incident does it refer to?Dharam kya unka hae, kya zaat hae, yeh janta kaun?Ghar na jalta to unhe raat mein pehchanta kaun?,Ghar jalane ko mera, log jo ghar mein aaye,Shakahari hae mere dost tumahara khanjar.Tumne Babar kee taraf pheke thhe saare pattharHae mere sar ki khata zakhm jo sar mein aaye,

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BABRI MASJID DEMOLITION

• During an anti-American protest in Seoul in 2002 ‘X’, smashed a model American tank live on stage. He first held the tank above his head, before throwing it to the floor and violently breaking it up with a microphone stand. The demonstration happened during strong anti-American sentiment in the country after a 50-tonne US armoured vehicle killed two 14-year-old girls, Shim Mi-seon and Shin Hyo-sun.

• These anti-american sentiments were clear in his songs. An initial translation of the lyrics was posted by an iReporter unto CNN's iReport site.Some of the lyrics sung by him have been translated by CNN as follows: "Kill those fucking Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives and those who ordered them to torture," and "Kill [the Yankees'] daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law and fathers / Kill them all slowly and painfully.“

• Who is ‘x’?

-source-wikipedia

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Did x, who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fall in love himself?My truthful answer to you... I always thought of x as gay. [ovation.] X fell in love with______, and that added to his horror when ________showed himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused x a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extent? But, he met someone as brilliant as he was, and rather like_______ he was very drawn to this brilliant person, and horribly, terribly let down by him. Yeah, that's how I always saw x. In fact, recently I was in a script read, and they had x saying a line to _______early in the script saying I knew a girl once, whose hair... [laughter]. I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter, “x's gay!" [laughter] If I'd known it would make you so happy, I would have announced it years ago! This is y talking about x, one of the characters from her books, ID x and y.

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DUMBLEDORE, JK ROWLING

x Face (sometimes referred to as “Fuck That Guy” or “Dumb Bitch”) is a rage comic-style contour drawing of the professional basketball player x wearing a hearty smile. The image is typically used as a reaction face to convey a dismissive attitude towards someone else’s input in online discussions, then usually following something that one ups their input.OriginThe drawing is based on a still shot photograph of x captured from a post-game press conference in May 2009. Id x.

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ID the anthem9

THE 2013 IPL CHAMPIONS!

• There are varying accounts of how the Dutch named ‘X’.A generally accepted version is that the name of the street was derived from an earthen wall on the northern boundary of the New Amsterdam settlement, perhaps to protect against English colonial encroachment or incursions by native Americans. Later, on behalf of the Dutch West India Company, Peter Stuyvesant, helped in the construction of a more substantial fortification, a strengthened 12-foot (4 m) wall. The wall started at Pearl Street, which was the shoreline at that time, crossing the Indian path Broadway and ending at the other shoreline (today's Trinity Place), where it took a turn south and ran along the shore until it ended at the old fort . ’X’ was laid along this wall. In those days, local merchants and traders would gather at ‘X’ to buy and sell shares and bonds , something which occurs even today but at a much broader sense.

• What is ‘X’

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WALL STREET

Epic rap battles of historyX- “I admire the way you broke the _____ power, but I have a dream

that one day you’ll take a shower.”Y- “I am passively resisting the fact

that you suck, I am celibate because I don’t give a fuck.”

Id x and y.

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Martin Luther King Jr and Gandhi

When x’s y released in 1998, it went unnoticed. But at the beginning of the millennium, with a copy being uploaded on the internet, it gained an avid following. Ardent fans from the IITs started a campaign to make y the highest rated movie on IMDB. It worked, for some time y’s rating was 10, higher than that of Godfather and Shawshank Redemption. Its current rating is still at a respectable 7.6(higher than ra one, dirty picture, rockstar). With scenes like the “vitamin rape scene”, double meaning dialogues, atrocious production values, y was so bad that it was good. Id x and the Indian cult classic y.

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KANTI SHAH’S GUNDA

• Identify the girl playing the piano?

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MINISSHA LAMBA

• Tux, the penguin is official mascot of ‘X’. Tux was originally designed as a submission for a logo contest for ‘X’. Three such competitions took place; Tux won none of them but became more famous than its counterparts. This is why Tux was made the mascot and not the logo.I.D. ‘X’

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• What is being advertised?

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IPL

Renowned for its distinct vanilla flavour, ‘X’ is the 3rd largest selling product in its

category all over the world. Manufactured primarily out of Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad

by Mohan Meakin, it is available throughout India. Advertising guru Ian

Batley considers it a ‘potential great Indian brand. It is available in the following

variants- ‘Supreme’, ‘Gold Reserve’, ‘XXX’, ‘Deluxe XXX’ and ‘White’.

ID X.

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OLD MONK RUM

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PUSSY RIOT

• ‘X’ was founded in London in 1961 by english labour lawyer , Peter Benenson. According to his own account, he was travelling in the London Underground on 19 November 1960, when he read of two Portuguese students from Coimbra who had been sentenced to seven years of imprisonment in Portugal for allegedly “having drunk a toast to liberty” by the then portugese government which was authoritarian in nature and strongly anti-communist .Following this “the observer” published Benenson’s famous article ‘The forgotten prisoners’.

• The article brought the reader's attention to those "imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government .After this an appeal for ‘X’ was published by many newspapers.In july 1961

this led to the foundation of ‘X’ as a permanent organisation.I.D. ‘X’

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AMNESTY

What would you associate with this scene.

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October 26 1985 01:22 AMNovember 05 1955 01:21 AM

October 21 2015 04:29 PMOctober 22 2015 00:00 October 26 2015 00:00

October 26 1995 10:00 AMOctober 21 2015 04:29 PM

November 12 1955 06:38 AMOctober 26 1985a 09:00 PM November 12 1955 06:30 AM

January 01 1885 12:00 AMSeptember 02 1885 12:00 PM

October 27 1985 09:59 AMOctober 27 1985 10:30 AM

Unknown DateJune 13 1931

CONNECT

BACK TO THE FUTURE

Identify the sporting team by the list of sponsors given.

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BARCELONA

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FERRARI

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FORCE INDIA

26 Forbes recently listed ________as the 1107th richest man in the world with a net worth of $ 1.3 billion. His profile reads…__________heads X Group……. His grandfather started the business………His father took charge after an acrimonious family split in 1978. ________, who has a medical degree, quit his job in the U.S. at age 28 …….___________ is buying back stakes that software tycoons Azim Premji and N.R.Narayana Murthy both personally held in X that pegs the valuation of his firm at $1.2 billion

MANIPAL EDUCATION AND MEDICAL GROUP,

RANJAN PAI.

27 In 2007, US Trade Representative Susan Schwab met her Indian counterpart Kamal Nath

who agreed to give access to X to the Indian market in exchange for the export of Indian

mangoes. After months of negotiations X was finally able to enter the Indian market in 2013.

The delay took place due to disagreements over import duties which India refuses to waive. Total

import duties of 110% will be levied as X is completely manufactured in America, from

where it will be imported to India. Identify the iconic American company X.

HARLEY DAVIDSON

28 On Jan. 30, a Japanese-American college student named George Miller, posted a three-and-a-half minute compilation of comedy on YouTube. Miller has been posting videos since 2008 and had developed an absurd comic style and an audience of tens of thousands. Miller’s movie began with 19 seconds of “Pink Guy,” (a character where he is mime in a pink body suit

who dances and pratfalls) and three friends dancing in Miller’s bedroom to an obscure piece of electronic dance music: “X” by a little-known DJ called Harry Rodrigues, or “Baauer.” Miller’s

audience loved the dance. Id X.

HARLEM SHAKE

29 “This matter seeks to protect X, a small company headquartered in Chicago, that has been in business for

almost five years, from being rolled over and quite possibly eliminated by the unlawful action by the world’s largest and most powerful social media

company, Y. Y has announced its intention to use and, indeed has already begun to re-direct Internet traffic,

using X’ federally registered “X” trademark as the centerpiece of Facebook’s new product offering going

forward, a move that, given the size and reach of Y, will essentially eliminate X and leave the public with the

confusing impression that plaintiff X is somehow affiliated with Y. In the event that Y is permitted to

move forward with release of its “X” product offering, consumer confusion with x’ existing “X” website will

invariably result.” Id X and Y.

30 All American Civil War veterans' records were bound in X, and the difficulty in accessing them

led to the modern American use of the term ‘X’ but there is evidence that the term was in

use in its modern sense sometime before this. X means excessive regulation or rigid conformity

to formal rules that is considered redundant or bureaucratic and hinders or prevents action

or decision making. It is usually applied to governments, corporations, and other large

organizations. What is X?