11. Answers
• Andy Warhol, Alfred Hitchcock
• Pullela Gopichand, Prakash Padukone
• Michael Caine, Pele, Sylvester Stallone
• Salvador Dali, Walt Disney
• Stephen Fry, J.K. Rowling
• Valentina Tereshkova, Neil Armstrong
13. Round 2 - Clockwise
• 12 questions, each worth +10 points on
Infinite Bounce
• Pounce and write the answer for +15/-5
14. • These items, once the most popular in their
category, have now largely been rendered
obsolete. Sony, which had a near-monopoly on
their manufacture, saw sales fall from 47 million
in 2002 to 12 million in 2009 and hence decided
to end sales in March 2011, effectively ending
their availability. However, most of the world had
moved on much before that, with companies like
Apple and Dell starting to phase them out in 1998
and 2003, respectively. Name this once-
ubiquitous product.
17. • Tim Ryan, an Australian-born IT professional, was
a regular player for the East Box Hill Cricket Club
in Victoria before moving to England in 2004.
Earlier this year, his knowledge of the game came
in handy when he opened the batting in what
some have called the most-viewed cricket game
in history. A shortage of white shirts, however,
meant that Tim had to play in a blue shirt and
was hence easier to spot. Where was Tim Ryan
playing?
20. • The Giving Pledge is a campaign started in
2010 by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates to
encourage the wealthiest people in the United
States to make a commitment to give their
wealth to philanthropic causes. The largest
single potential donation to The Giving Pledge
so far has been between one and a half and
two billion dollars, pledged recently by X after
a high-profile $4.05 billion business deal. ID X
and the deal.
26. • This card game originated in the 1850s and
was based on a European card game called
Primero. Modern variants of the game include
Straight, Draw, Stud and Community Card. Of
these, a variety of Community Card poker
named after a U.S. state is by far the most
popular worldwide, with tournaments held
around the world including several in Goa.
Name the game and its most popular variant.
29. • By definition, a spice is a vegetative substance
used in nutritionally insignificant quantities as a
food additive for the purpose of flavour, colour,
or as a preservative.
• Furthermore, spices can be sorted into seven
groups: Dried fruits or seeds such as mustard,
Arils such as mace, Barks such as cinnamon, dried
buds such as cloves, Stigmas such as saffron,
roots and rhizomes such as ginger.
• The seventh group, resins, contains only one
member – a spice first discovered in India but
popularised by the Romans, who gave it a name
which referenced its pungent smell. Name it.
32. • During the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign,
Barack Obama’s staff came up with a
portmanteau word to describe his opponent’s
constant flip-flopping and forgetfulness with
regards to various issues throughout his
campaign. What word was thus coined?
38. • Actor Angus T Jones, famous for his role in the
TV show X recently in an interview said “If you
watch X, please stop watching it. I'm on X and
I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching
it; stop filling your head with filth. Please.
People say it's just entertainment, but you
cannot be a true God-fearing person and be
on a television show like X.” Name the TV
show.
41. • Just after Midnight on August 24, 1995, a
student named Jonathan Prentice walked into
a bookshop in Auckland, New Zealand, pulled
out 200 NZD and became the first owner of
________ ____. Turning to a reporter, Prentice
declared: “I will be able to play Solitaire and
send faxes at the same time”. What had
Jonathan Prentice just purchased?
44. • This term was first used in 2004 in the book
“Unfair & Unbalanced: The Lunatic
Magniloquence of Henry E Panky” by Patrick
Carlisle. That work includes the lines “So,
anyways a Great Man, in his querulous twilight
years, who doesn’t want to go gently into that
blacky black night. He wants to cut loose, dance
on the razor's edge, pry open the lid of his______
_____!” The phrase soon became popular and
was used as the title of a 2007 movie. Fill in the
blanks.
47. • _______ is a name of a bird in Greek legend,
commonly associated with the kingfisher. The
ancient Greeks believed that fourteen days of
calm weather were to be expected around the
winter solstice—usually the 21st or 22nd of
December in the Northern Hemisphere, as that
was when the _____ calmed the surface of the
sea in order to brood her eggs on a floating nest.
It therefore came to be associated with calmness,
and it is also a part of a popular phrase used for
any happy, carefree period of time. Fill in the
blank.
51. Round 3 – Long Visual Connect
• 11 Visuals, connected by a theme
• 21-x points for getting the theme, where x is
the slide number at which you get it
• -5 for guessing the theme incorrectly
• A maximiser of +2 per slide will apply at the
end of the theme
79. Round 4 – Anti-Clockwise
• 12 questions, each worth +10 points on
Infinite Bounce
• Pounce and write the answer for +15/-5
80. • _______is a training discipline that developed out of
military obstacle course training.
• Derived from the French for “combatant’s course”, its
practitioners aim to move from one place to another,
negotiating the obstacles in between using whatever
physical moves necessary and without the use of any
equipment. A male practitioner is generally called a
"traceur", a female a "traceuse".
• Developed by Raymond Belle, David Belle and Sébastien
Foucan, _______ became popular in the 1990s and 2000s
through a series of documentaries and films featuring these
practitioners and others. Fill in the blanks.
83. • X’s debut wicket in 2006 was Y, LBW for 16.
After the match, X asked Y to autograph the
ball with which X had taken the wicket. Y did
so gladly, writing “Once in a blue moon, never
again mate ha ha” and signing his name. All
this must now seem rather irritating to Y and
his fans as history repeated itself recently.
Identify X and Y.
86. • Czestochowa, Poland
• Knock, Ireland
• Loreto, Italy
• Fatima, Portugal
• Guadalupe, Mexico
• Lourdes, France
• What religious phenomenon connects all these
cities?
89. • In 2006, while developing a particular product, it was
discovered that keys placed in a pocket with the prototype
could scratch its hard plastic surface. This necessitated a
glass sufficiently scratch-resistant to eliminate the problem.
When X subsequently contacted Wendell Weeks, the CEO
of Corning Inc., Weeks told him of a material the company
had developed in the 1960s called “Gorilla Glass”. Despite
the CEO's initial concern over whether the company could
manufacture sufficient quantities of glass for the product
debut, X convinced Weeks to produce the glass, and
Corning's factory in Harrodsburg, Kentucky supplied the
glass for the product's release in June 2007. Identify X and
the product
92. The ___________ Cup, also known as a Greedy Cup or a Tantalus Cup, is a form of
drinking cup which forces its user to drink only in moderation. It allows its user to fill
the cup up to a certain level. If the user fills the cup only to that level, he may enjoy a
drink in peace. If the imbiber exhibits gluttony, however, the cup spills its entire
contents out through the bottom. The invention of this cup is credited to
___________, who is more well-known as a mathematician.
95. • In 1999, the then World Chess Champion Gary
Kasparov played a game of chess that lasted 62
moves over the course of 4 months. He said “It is
the greatest game in the history of chess. The
sheer number of ideas, the complexity, and the
contribution it has made to chess make it the
most important game ever played.” His
opponent’s participation was made possible by
technological advances that were beyond the
reach of World Champions of previous
generations. Who was his opponent?
97. • The world.
• Kasparov versus the World was a game of
chess played in 1999 over the Internet.
Conducting the white pieces, Garry Kasparov
faced the rest of the world in consultation,
with the World Team moves to be decided by
a majority vote. Over 50,000 individuals from
more than 75 countries participated in the
game, which Kasparov eventually won.
98. • This word originally meant a small copper coin
that the residents of Venice would pay to hear
public readings of one of the earliest issued
newssheets. Now it indicates a public journal,
a newspaper of record, or simply a newspaper.
What’s the good word?
101. • In 1927, a Filipino-American porter named Pedro
Flores started making wooden ____ and selling
them to guests of the hotel at which he worked,
basing them on items he had seen in The
Philippines as a child. A visitor named Donald F
Duncan became fascinated with these items and
bought Flores’ entire factory. Duncan then
persuaded newspaper magnate William Randolph
Hearst to offer them as a promotion to boost his
sales. Sales of these items reached their peak in
1962, when 45 million units were sold. What?
104. • X was an English electrical engineer and
physicist. He invented the first thermionic
valve or vacuum tube (the diode, which he
called the “kenotron”) in 1904. He is
remembered today for a visual mnemonic that
contains his name. Name him or the
mnemonic.
107. • There are only 4 instances of this happening in
the history of Test cricket. In chronological order,
they are:
• 1. WW Read in 1884
• 2. RA Duff in 1902
• 3. Pat Symcox in 1998.
• 4. ___ ______ in 2012.
• What occurrence? Also, fill in the blanks.
109. The only four No. 10 batsmen to score a century, the most recent being Abul Hasan of
Bangladesh.
110. • ________, the species of fish used to make
this delicacy, are nowadays at risk of
extinction due to massive over-fishing around
the Eurasian coastline. To combat this,
________ fisheries are becoming common
across the region. Also, other species of fish
such as salmon, steelhead, trout, lumpfish and
whitefish are now being used to make this
item. Fill in the blanks and name the delicacy.
113. A stamp issued by Monaco on the occasion of an author’s 150th birth anniversary, showing
him and a vehicle from arguably his most famous work. Identify both.
