A general quiz conducted on the occasion of National Education Day

2. Rules:
 Different rules for different sections.
 Use of electronic devices and/or Internet is strictly prohibited, if
found using the above mentioned commodities, it will result in
instant expulsion from Hogwarts, sorry MNNIT, sorry Gnosis, sorry NLH.
 And as always Quizmaster is God.

4. Liftoff!

5. Round One: All Systems Go !
 Infinite bounce
 +10 on correct or pass
 No negatives
 8 Questions in all
 Hint when necessary

6. The following three countries are the only
ones who don’t use X, even though USA has
been sanctioned to use it since 1866

8. The Metric System

11. Segments of the Berlin Wall

12.  Recently, popular physicist Brian Cox, went to Nasa’s Space
Simulation Chamber at the Space Power Facility in Ohio, home to
the biggest vacuum chamber in the world.
 The Simulation Chamber replicates the same conditions
experienced in outer space. Nasa uses the cylinder to test out its
spacecrafts.
 Vacuum was necessary for the experiment that Cox had in mind.
 Cox wanted to prove a famous thought experiment by X.
 When X first did this experiment from a very famous building, it failed
due to obvious reasons.
 This thought experiment has been recreated in space, but Cox
wanted to simulate it on earth.

14. Ball and feather drop Galileo

15.  Iznogoud (pronounced "he's/is no good" with a French accent) is a
French comics series featuring an eponymous character, created
by the comics writer René Goscinny and comics artist Jean Tabary.
 Iznogoud is the second in command (Grand Vizier) to the Caliph of
Baghdad Haroun El Poussah but his sole aim in life is to overthrow
the Caliph and take his place. This is frequently expressed in his
famous catchphrase, "I want to become Caliph instead of the
Caliph" , which has passed into everyday French for qualifying over-ambitious
people who want to become chief.

17. Tantri the Mantri

18. Connect the four:
 The first is not a word as people normally think but perhaps a way to
represent Saturn.
 The second comes from Rudolf Koch’s Book of Signs, and it is
intended to symbolize a person who possesses both confidence
and competence.
 The third is from the same book and represents the triad of mother,
father and child, but, inverted, it also happens to be the logo for
Ballantine beer.
 The forth is an original creation , being supposedly based on the sign
of the Mu Civilization .

21. Connect to a sport:
 Under his/her thumb
 Lure
 Pounce
 Rouse
 Haggard
 Hoodwinked

23. Falconry

24.  Hotdogs are also known as X and Y owing to having it’s roots in the
two cities from which it originated.
 X and Y, are derived from the names of those two cities.
 Give me the name of the cities.

26.  Frankfurter- Frankfurt, Germany
 Weiner- Vienna, Austria

27.  Last night I had a dream, When I got to Africa,
I had one hell of a ______,
I had to beat Tarzan’s behind first,
For claiming to be King of the Jungle.
For this fight, I’ve wrestled with alligators,
I’ve tussled with a whale.
I done handcuffed lightning
And throw thunder in jail.
You know I’m bad.
Just last week, I murdered a rock,
Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick.
I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.
I’m so fast, man,
I can run through a hurricane and don’t get wet.
When X meets me,
He’ll pay his debt.
I can drown the drink of water, and kill a dead tree.
Wait till you see Y.”
 The above is Y trash talking to X before Z(which contains the blank word). ID all.

30.  Perhaps one of the most sentimental moments in modern Olympic
history occurred during the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney,
Australia , during the opening ceremony.
 It was a moment of great importance as both countries involved set
aside their decade long differences and came together in the act.
 The reason being that they are “of the same blood”.
 Sadly this miracle was only seen again in 2004 Athens after which it
stopped.

33. Round Two: The Outer Planets
 Pounce and Infinite Bounce
 +20/-10 on pounce
 +10/-0 on bounce.

34.  Side 1
Things Left Unsaid
It’s What We Do
Ebb And Flow
 Side 2
Sum
Skins
Unsung
Anisina
 Side 3
The Lost Art Of Conversation
On Noodle Street
Night Light
Allons-y (1)
Autumn ‘68
Allons-y (2)
Talkin’ ________
 Side 4
Calling
Eyes To Pearls
Surfacing
Louder Than Word
 The text beside is the track listing
of the latest Pink Floyd album ‘The
Endless River’
 The highlighted song contains a
very infrequent collaborator of
Pink Floyd who once again makes
his appearance.
 ID this famous collaborator.

36. Talkin’ Hawkin’

37.  Liechtenstein is the only UEFA member nation that does not have
any spot in the UEFA Champions league.
 Why this lack of love for this small landlocked country?

39.  According to the UEFA regulations a National League needs to
consist of at least eight clubs to be considered valid, otherwise no
participants of such a league will be allowed to enter European
competitions.
 There are only seven clubs that are active in Liechtenstein.

40.  X is used for calculating the relative skill levels of players in
competitor-versus-competitor games.
 The difference in the ratings between two players serves as a
predictor of the outcome of a match. Two players with equal ratings
who play against each other multiple times are expected to score
an equal number of wins. A player whose rating is 100 points greater
than their opponent's is expected to win 64% of the time; if the
difference is 200 points, then the expected win proportion for the
stronger player is 76%.
 Named afterd it’s creater Arpad X, id X and where is it used majorly.

42. Elo rating system, Chess.

43.  Malana is an ancient Indian village in the state of Himachal Pradesh.
 Malana has a history and it goes back to Jamlu rishi (sage) who inhabited this
place and made rules and regulations.
 It is one of the oldest democracies of the world with a well organized
parliamentary system.
 People in Malana consider all non-Malani to be inferior and consequently
untouchable. Visitors to Malana town must pay particular attention to stick to
the prescribed paths and not to touch any of the walls, houses or people there.
If this does occur, visitors are expected to pay a forfeit sum, that will cover the
sacrificial slaughter of a lamb in order purify the object that has been made
impure.
 This is due to the supposed superiority of the people of Malana is because
according to legends they are either the descendants of Aryans or even more
legendary they are X?
 What is X?
 Hint: think foreign invasions

45. Descendants of Greek Soldiers of
Alexander’s Army

46.  Alan and Gary Keery, are identical twins from Belfast,UK, with a
craze for X.
 To share their craze, with the help of Indiegogo they raised the funds
to open X Killer Café , worlds first X café.
 The servings will be in small, medium and large sizes and with 20
different toppings.
 What is X?

48. The first ever Cereal Café

49.  X is an E-Ink Typewriter with a aim to
reduce the distractions associated with
modern writing devices.
 Between social networks, video games
and the endless void of procrastination
we call "the internet," computers can
make pretty poor writing devices. Adam
Leeb and Patrick Paul therefore created
X.
 It's a minimalist writing machine that
features a machine-tooled aluminum
chassis, a satisfying mechanical keyboard
and a six-week battery life. It's not
completely devoid of modern faculties,
however: it also automatically uploads
your prose to a cloud storage system as
you type it.

51. Hemingwrite

52.  X Lake saline soda lake located at X in Buldana district,
Maharashtra, India. It has a radius of 2 Kms and a depth of 100m.
 This lake, which lies in a basalt impact structure, is both saline and
alkaline in nature. Geologists, ecologists, archaeologists, naturalists
and astronomers have reported several studies on the various
aspects of this crater lake ecosystem.
 At the base, the lake has a circumference of about 4.8 km (three
miles .A ring of date-palms followed by a ring of tamarind trees
(nearly 1.6 km or a mile broad) leads to a ring of babul trees,
bounded on the inside by a belt of bare muddy space.
 The lake was first mentioned in ancient scriptures such as the
Skanda Purana, the Padma Puran and the Aaina-i-Akbari
 What is special about this lake?

54. Lonar Lake, created by a metoer
impact. Shown below the crater.

55.  X includes four categories of fixed objects from where one can start
the activity
 Building
 Antenna
 Span
 Earth(i.e Cliff)
This dangerous sport was given it’s name by filmmaker Carl Boenish, his
wife Jean Boenish.
Due to the above four requirements, people involved often break the law
to accomplish this sport. ID

57. B.A.S.E Jumping

60. Joseph Conrad

61. Round Three: Somewhere near
Andromeda
 Peculiar Categories having peculiar answers
 Choice based on the basis of current scores.
 Infinite pounce
 +20/-10 on pounce
 +10/-0 on direct(bounce applies)

62.  Movies and Colors
 Word Usage in Sports
 Artisitic Renditions
 Biological Miracles
 Movies, Math and Beyond
 Photographic History
 'Fruit'ful Outcome
 Documentaries and Homages
 Next Round

63.  The Three Colors Trilogy is a collective title of three films by Krzysztof
Kieślowski, two made in French and one in Polish.
 Three Colors : Blue, Three Colors : White, Three Colors : Red
 The three movies deal with the issues of equality, liberation and
brotherhood.
 Simple. Why these particular three colors?

65. Colors of the french flag: The movies deal with the political
ideas in the motto of the French Republic liberty, equality,
fraternity.
 Home

66.  The first use of the term is unknown, but the word first appeared in print in
London police-court reports in 1894 referring to the name of a gang of youths in
the Lambeth area of London—X Boys.
 In August 1898 a murder in Lambeth committed by a member of the gang drew
further attention to the word which was immediately popularised by the press.
The London-based newspaper Daily Graphic wrote in an article on 22 August
1898, "The avalanche of brutality which, under the name of X-ism' ... has cast
such a dire slur on the social records of South London“.
 Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in his 1904 novel The Adventure of the Six Napoleons,
"It seemed to be one of those senseless acts of X-ism which occur from time to
time, and it was reported to the constable on the beat as such“
 Since 1970’s the word X is also being associated with violence in sports, specially
in Britain.
 ID X?

68. Hooligans, Hooliganism
 Home

71. Salvador Dali’s Alice in Wonderland
 Home

72.  Mohammadpur Umri is a small village close to the Indian Air Force
base of Bamrauli, near Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh State, India
 The village has a large number of X and therefore sometimes
labeled as the X capital of the world. Out of a total population of
600, there are almost 33 occurrences of X here. The village boasts a
monozygotic (MZ) rate that is 300 times the national average and
maybe one of the highest in the world.

74. The Twin Village
 Home

75.  Elvis Presley – 2
 Barack Obama – 2
 Anne Frank – 3
 Mark Zuckerberg – 4
 Shahrukh Khan – 3
 Om Puri – 2
 Anupam Kher - 2
 The following are certain numbers
that have been assigned to them
owing to their relation with X.
 Who is X or what are these numbers.
 These numbers started because X
once stated “he had worked with
everybody in ________ or someone
who's worked with them.”
 This concept is itself based on Y
numbers, which refers to the
particular interactions people had
with the popular mathematician Y.

77. Bacon Numbers, Kevin Bacon.
Paul Erdos, Erdos Numbers
Shah Rukh Khan's Bacon number is 3
 Shah Rukh Khan and Anupam Kher appeared in Dilwale Dulhania
Le Jayenge.
 Anupam Kher and Jennifer Lawrence appeared in Silver Linings
Playbook.
 Jennifer Lawrence and Kevin Bacon appeared in X-Men: First
Class.
 Home

78.  A picture from a Nazi’s personal album,
labelled on the back as “X”. It shows a
Nazi just about to shoot a Jewish man
kneeling before a filled mass grave in
Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1941. All 28,000 Jews
from Vinnitsa and its surrounding areas
were massacred at the time.
 Hannah Arendt wrote about “the
banality of evil”: “The neutral expressions
on the shooter and his uniformed
audience pretty well encapsulate that
concept: they could be watching a
barber cut hair, instead of the heartless
extermination of innocents. Humans can
adapt to endure almost anything, but in
doing so, they sometimes perpetuate
incredible evil.

80. The Last Jew
 Home

81.  John X was a Scottish-Canadian farmer who was born in the
province of New York in 1777.
 While clearing his property, McIntosh discovered a number of
seedling trees growing wild. He transplanted them to his garden,
and by the following year only one had survived. Several years later,
the tree was producing the crisp, delicious fruit that is now well
known. The discoverer eventually dubbed it the ‘X Red', which is still
its official name.
 What is X and how did it influence the modern world?

83. McIntosh Red Apples, Macintosh
 Home

84.  This American documentary
follows Steve Weibe as in his
attempts to take over the reigning
champion Billy Mitchell.
 Rivalry related to what?
 Also give the references in the
name of the documentary

86. Donkey Kong high scores.
 Home

87. Round Four: The edge of the
Universe
 Long Visual Connect
 4 questions theme connect only.
 Theme points will be displayed on slides.

88. +40/-20

89. +30/-10

90. +20/-10

91. +10/-0

93. Andy Serkis roles via Motion
Capture

94. Fin.
 Scores please.
 Comments and Criticisms are welcome .