XIMB - Rand (0,M) Quiz - Mains

Format
Round 1 : SHARE Sheets (8 Questions)
Round 2 : MICRO Robin (12 Questions)
Round 3: Reel PRIME (Cinema, 6 Questions)
Round 4: Reverse RENTALS (12 Questions)
Round 5: AUTO Peak Rounds (2X points, 6
Questions)

1.
The image to the right is the 2016 Libertarian Party
Logo for president of the United States. A
Cyber/Tech entreprenuer first announced his
presidential run as a member of the "Cyber Party"
on September 8, 2015 and on December 24, 2015,
he announced he would instead run for president as
a member of the Libertarian Party. In an interview
with Hit & Run Blog, this candidate said that running
for president is "not something I really want to do, I
think I see it as an obligation" to do what I can to
straighten out "a country in crisis. Who?

2.
A 911-acre Arkansas state park in Pike County, Arkansas,
in the United States is the world’s only one of a kind park.
The park features a 37.5-acre plowed field and it is
completely accessible to the public. The International
Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists the site as a
Class III Natural Monument or Feature in its registry. A
particular product has been continuously been discovered
in the field since 1906 and each year till date we note new
discoveries. What?
<Image of people engaging in the act is next>

Crater of Diamonds Park.
Free Public Access

3.
Media plaudits tell that the film is important because it tries to
celebrate the long struggle against unjust system of forced
patriarchy. A PIL was filed in the Gujarat High Court seeking a
ban on this movie claiming that it had projected the
Rabari/Maldhari (traditional cattle-breeders) community in "bad
light". Taking a strong objection to the portrayal of the
community, especially the women, Marasubhai Rabari, a chief,
claimed that the film could create a "wrong impression" among
the masses about the Maldhari community as it contained
"semi-nude" scenes. Which movie released initially in 12th Sep
2015, at the Toronto Film Festival is this?

4.
Volume One, Number One of X, printed in New Haven,
Connecticut, with a cover price of 50 cents, was a very low key
affair. Its chestnut brown paper cover lacked the distinctive
yellow border (that wouldn't appear until 1910), and not a single
photograph was included within its 98 pages (that wouldn't
happen until 1905). Considered the father of American
geography, William Morris Davis introduced an influential theory
on the cycle of erosion ("young" and "old" landscapes), which
he lays out in thorough detail in X’s first feature. Solve
<Image of X>

5.
The pic has the following Air Force
members in 1957, standing 65 miles
NW to Las Vegas
Col. Sidney Bruce
Lt. Col. Frank P. Ball
Maj. Norman "Bodie" Bodinger
Maj. John Hughes
Don Lutrel
George Yoshitake (the
cameraman, not seen)
What are they doing?

Safety of Nuclear Blasts; US
Propaganda

6.
In 2014, nearly 46 years after the death of this political stalwart,
his family members want Prime Minister Narendra Modi to order
a thorough probe into his mysterious death at Mughalsarai
railway station in UP. In 2013, Arvind Menon, a senior BJP
leader from Madhya Pradesh alleged Congress' hand behind
the assassination and claimed that rising popularity of this
stalwart had sent jitters to the then Congress leaders. Which
Political leader, 100th Birth Centenary celebrated this year in
2016 and led to many prefixes of the Modi Govt. in yojanas ?
<Image of his dead body in railway tracks, 1968>

7.
This trophy stands 18-and-a-half
inches high and has a diameter of 7-
and-a-half inches. Strangely enough,
no one quite seems to know what the
carving of a pineapple is doing atop
this magnificent cup. One theory says
it has to do with the tradition of navy
captains putting a pineapple atop their
gateposts on returning home from sea.
Which one?

8.
The toy has been described as originating in China, as
being found in King Tut's tomb, though unmentioned in its
inventory, and as one of the few toys allowed on Sunday
by Puritans in colonial America. Many slight variants
have been patented in the United States, one from the
1940s having in one block an indentation to hold a
penny, which then appeared to dis- and re- appear. The
etymology (the common one) comes from the biblical
passage steps to heaven, mentioned in Genesis 28:12.
Name the Toy which incidentally shares the name with
the Tim Robbins thriller in 1990?
<Toy’s Image>

1.
After some investigations it was found that a human error
did actually lead to 160 liters of hydrogen peroxide being
mistakenly dumped on these sites on Aug. 5, the New
York Times reports. Olympics officials said that the
hydrogen peroxide "neutralized" the chlorine and made
way for the growth of "organic compounds" that possibly
included algae. What blunder, a reason for much shame
in Rio Olympics 2016 ?

2.
The word “X” was originally used to describe the wooden
board carriage makers attached to the front of carriages
to prevent mud and rocks from being splashed onto
drivers and their passengers by the horses that pulled
them about. In essence, X served as mud flaps for
horses’ hooves. Now ubiquitous in all automobiles and
used widely in corporate parlance, What is X?
<Image follows>

3.
The insects are various families of
bees (Lasioglossum gotham) native
to Thailand. The photographs were
taken by a group of entomologists
who used their own eyes as bait
while studying the a particular
sustenance of these bees from both
animals and humans. The
researchers also used meat,
Ovaltine(biscuits), cheese, and
other foods to attract the bees to no
avail.These bees seem to be clung
on something and are doing what?

Drinking Sweat/Tears
As a form of rich protein

4.
Having only 40
employees, but making
nearly $400 million each
year this co. generates
the max ROI per
employee in the coporata
parlance. That's $10
million per employee.
Name the co., a
precursor to the JustDials
and OLX’s

5.
X cuisine is a practice engaged in by a small subculture in
the United States, southern Canada, the United Kingdom
and other Western countries as well as in other parts of
the world like Australia. It is also a subject of humor and
urban legend owing to cafes promoting lines as “From
Your Grill to Ours”. These cuisine constitute large animals
including deer, kangaroo, Elk and moose, bear and as
well as smaller animals such as armadillos, raccoons,
skunks and birds. What is X? (Or Put Funda)

6.
Diairesis (Ancient Greek: diaíresis, "division") is a form of
classification used in ancient (especially Platonic) logic
that serves to systematize concepts and come to
definitions. When defining a concept using diairesis, one
starts with a broad concept, then divides this into (at
least) two more specific sub-concepts, and this procedure
is repeated until a definition of the desired concept is
reached. The founder of Diairesis was Plato. Where,
while writing or reading, have you encountered the
Diairesis/Diaeresis?

7.
De La Rue is a banknote manufacturer, security
printing, and papermaking company with
headquarters in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England.
They created a board game called STUMPZ in the
1930’s and used playing cards as a component of
the set. They celebrated and cherished an English
cricket act of 1956 in Manchester by giving a
cricketer 190 Sterling Pounds (10 for each feat).
What did they do?

9.
A Wooden Ship’s remains
(claimed) were found at a very
improbable site in July 2010 and
historians, after research, owed
it to the River Hudson’s raw
course and scenic changes in
1800’s and confirmed that the
findings were actually of a ship.
Which Site?

10.
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva is a progressive genetic
disorder that turns soft tissues into bone over time. Mutations of
ACVR1, this gene can allow ossification to go unchecked
throughout a sufferer's life, even turning skeletal muscle into
bone and causing joints to fuse together. This disorder occurs in
about 1 in 2 million people, and there are currently no
treatments or cures. Trauma exacerbates the condition, so
attempts to remove bone surgically just results in the body
producing even more bone in the area. Also the popular name
of a notorious Serial Killer of Kolkata/Mumbai in 1980’s,
Commonly known as?

11.
Hundreds of poor children in the Indian state of Bihar
make a living by selling these things to Buddhist pilgrims
from the Mahabodhi tree - under which Gautam Buddha
is said to have attained enlightenment. These cost Indian
pilgrims only 10 rupees but to foreign pilgrims, they are
sold from anywhere between $1 and $10. Every year as
hundreds of thousands of pilgrims visit the Mahabodhi
temple in Bodh Gaya town it’s a good business for the
locals. What do they sell?
<Image>

12.
13 music industry giants want X to pay up to $75 Trillion
in damages after losing a copyright infringement claim.
When the companies won a ruling against X in May
2013, they requested damages that could now end up
totaling the aforementioned ridiculous amount, which is
five times our national debt of US! The GDP of the entire
world is between 59 and 62 Trillion. What is X, a
precursor to the Peer-to-Peer file sharing websites, in the
2000s?

1.
Bourton-on-the-water is a small village in Gloucestershire,
England. It has a population of 3,296, lies within the
Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and has
117 buildings with Grade II or higher listed status. It is so
beautiful that in 1937, local craftsmen decided to build a
1:9 scale replica of the village. This practice by craftsmen
repeated and the Britons and Tourists know this village by
another name, a very filmy connection. What?
<Images>

Village within a Village
Within a Village…...

2.
X is an opera in two acts by the French
composer Albert Roussel. The libretto, by
Louis Laloy, is based on Théodore-Marie
Pavie's La légende de X, reine de Tchitor,
which retells the legend recounted in Malik
Muhammad Jayasi's poem X (1540). It was
first performed at the Paris Opéra on June
1, 1923. Roussel styled the work an opéra-
ballet and there are many dance numbers
and opportunities for spectacle. The
composer was inspired by his visit to the
ruined city of Y. Solve X and Y

3.
By linguistic coincidence, the name
__________ may also be seen as a hybrid
word of the Japanese words meaning the
number nine, and a brick. Nine is the
number of tools (a toy industry term for
parts of a figure) used in a standard
_______figure: head, torso, hips, two arms,
two hands, and two legs; the English word
brick is collector’s jargon for LEGO
elements, and refers to the similarity of
________ to LEGO Minifigures.
Manufactured by Japanese toy company
MediCom Toy Inc, Fill in the Blanks
<Sample Toy, 1st of its line>

4.
Prakash Jha’s movie 'Aarakshan' revolves around the
subject of education and had sought a particular math
teacher’s help in imparting teaching skills to Big B and
Saif. The math teacher shot a video at Jha's office in
Mumbai and conducted as many as three to four
simulated classes at Jha's office over a period of two days
in December in 2011. Which Teacher, almost having a
smiliar storyline in the education sphere?
<Image of Big B>

5.
X solution, also known as X etch, is a mixture of sulfuric
acid (H2SO4) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), used to
clean organic residues off substrates. Because the
mixture is a strong oxidizing agent, it will remove most
organic matter, and it will also hydroxylate most surfaces
(add OH groups), making them highly hydrophilic (water-
compatible). It is extensively used in the micro electronics
and the glassware industries. Due to its ability to almost
eat out every residue almost instantly, what is this an ode
to a 1978 movie name?

6.
It has been claimed that when this movie was in post-
production in early 1968, NASA secretly approached the
film team to direct the first three Moon landings. As this
movie was released before the first Apollo landing (1969)
and the film’s depiction of the Moon's surface is much
different from its appearance in Apollo video, film, and
photography this led to a leading cause of the moon
landing conspiracy. Which Iconic Movie?
<Image of the Movie Snapshot of Moon>

1.
One of the earliest forms of the
invention, as in 1885 is to the
right and is attributed to one E.J
Claghorn. In 1959, this was
improved to a 3 point system
called as the “click-clack front
and back” by an engineer Nils
Bohlin and was granted free to
use for all to save millions of
lives. What?

2.
The images are of
Airbnb’s Halloween
Campaign in Oct 2015
and was indeed all about
spending lives with about
6 million dead bodies. Its
there in 191 countries as
of now, which City/Town?

3.
This is Piper, a 7-year-old
border collie and K-9 wildlife
manager at Cherry Capital
Airport in Traverse City,
Michigan. Piper came on as
wildlife manager in January
2015, and works a full-time
shift from 4 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
What is his primary work,
often a reason for many
airplane crashes and
turbulence

4.
This Wrestlemania-1 match was a tag team contest
between Hulk Hogan and Mr. T against “Rowdy”
Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff. The special referee
simply observed for most of the match and kept
himself out of trouble until chaos ensued. Everyone
ended up in the ring whaling away on each other and
this special referee managed to restore order and
even cracked Piper with a signature move. Who, in
March 1985, was this referee?

5.
HMS Birkenhead, also
referred to as Steam Frigate
Birkenhead, was one of the
first iron-hulled ships built for
the Royal Navy.
Immortalized by the
“Birkenhead Drill” of a
Rudyard Kipling’s poem, the
image is by Charles Dixon
and is called the Wreck of
the Birkenhead(1901). What,
in old naval parlance, is a
Birkenhead drill ?

‘Women and Children First’
protocol

6.
Craig Glenday, Editor-in-Chief of Guinness World
Records says the Banzai _________Category is the
most dangerous to attempt. They still accept entries
because contesters only risk their life, not the life of
others. The word ‘Banzai’ comes from a Japanese
desperate military strategy and also from a famous
mass suicide sliff, thus indicating bravery and
foolishness. Which Sport? Fill in the Blanks

7.
In the field of aviation for many routes connecting US
to Europe/East, the ‘Santa’s Shortcut’ is usually the
shortest but one of the riskiest routes owing to the
crossing of the 78th parallel. Prevailing winds and
low visibility are often the official reasons given for
not taking this route, although we have had example
of Etihad flights covering them from the Abu Dhabi-
LA route. What fulfills a Santa’s Shortcut?

8.
It has a unique alphabet consisting of 33 letters said to
mimic the shapes of vine tendrils as viticulture is of great
importance to its people. In fact it has one of the oldest
history of viticulture in the world. Evidence of wine-making
has been found dating back 8000 years ago. Other than
wine the national drink is Chacha, which also uses the grape
plant. It's made from the left overs from the wine making
process. Which country, deriving its name from a certain
Saint?
<Images>

9.
Chris Skaife is the _______master at the Tower of
London. His job is to care for the tower’s creatures, which
he has been doing for the past 11 years. Legend has it
that there must always be six of the creatures at the
Tower of London. If they leave, the kingdom and the tower
will fall. There are currently six main creatures at the
tower, and one reserve. It is also said that these creatures
at the Tower of London are listed as soldiers or guards.
What creatures? What is Chris Skaife currently?

10.
What color led from the North Germanic and Austria Army
Regiments of the 16- late 19th century?

11.
This Scot businessman boasted that
his secret for success was selling
the best goods at the cheapest
prices,harnessing the power of
advertising, and always being
optimistic. He was also the most
persistent challenger in the history of
the America's Cup. He visited Sri
Lanka in 1890 and made business
deals with James Taylor, who
introduced tea to Sri Lanka. Who?
<Image of X’s Seat>

12.
X was an ancient Roman
festival in honour of the god
Y, who presided over
boundaries. His statue was
merely a stone or post stuck
in the ground to distinguish
between properties and at
which every year sacrifices
were to be offered at the
festival of the X. Solve Both

1.
Among several alternative theories, however, is the belief
that this symbol evolved from the Eye of Horus, an
ancient Egyptian symbol associated with healing powers.
The practice of pharmacy, the preparation and
dispensation of drugs, has been around for thousands of
years and the world’s first recorded prescriptions were
etched on a clay tablet in Mesopotamia around 2100 B.C.
What symbol am I talking about?
<Eye or Horus>

2.
In 2005, MIT students recreated the mirror defense
and managed to set a wooden “ship” ablaze. On the
roof of a Cambridge parking garage, they scorched
the ship, but their test required ideal weather
conditions and a stationary target. Who invented
such a contraption, and the subject of the MIT tests
involving mirrors, intially to sink Roman Ships?
<Image>

3.
A X in mid-18th-century England was a fashionable fellow
who dressed and even spoke in an outlandishly affected
and emasculate manner. The term pejoratively referred to
a man who "exceeded the ordinary bounds of fashion”.
The X were precursor to the dandies, who came as a
more masculine reaction to the excesses of the X, far
from their present connotation of effeminacy.
<X: Real charactrer by the late masquerade, by P. Dawe,
1773>

4.
Moritz Frey's account provides the first substantial
challenge to historians' perceived wisdom on the subject,
which has generally been that this soldier was simply
following the fashion of the period. This soldier was only
obeying orders when he shaped something into its tightly-
clipped style. He was instructed to do so in order that it
would fit under the respirator masks, introduced in
response to WW 1 mustard gas attacks. Which soldier?
<Image>

5.
What caused these tattoo-like
marking or scars known as
‘Lichtenberg’ figures. The
patterns created are known to
be examples of fractals and
are heavily complex
geometrical patterns. What
causes them?

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