Quizmaster : Kartik Madan

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Kartik Madan

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3. 1.
Lily Allen was asked to stream a
concert on the ‘Second Life’ virtual
world by a user. They had the money
to pay, and there was nothing illegal
or immoral about the request. And yet
she replied ‘as if…!’. That decision cost
her an estimated £118 million, which
she now regrets. What didn’t she
foresee?

4. Safety Slide

5. The rising value of Bitcoin
• She was offered close to 10,000 bitcoins

6. 2.
• In 1935, Dhoop Chhaon became the pioneer
as one of the most popular signatures of
Indian cinema was started with this film.
• Rai Chand Boral was the first to use the
cinematic technique of __________in this
film.

7. Safety Slide

8. • Playback Singing

9. 3.
In 1991, the weekly magazine ‘New Scientist’ reported
that a free phone number ending …123580 would
feature in a new advertising campaign.
It was thought to be employed as part of a mnemonic to
help people leaving pubs.
What was the number for?

10. Safety Slide

11. Safety Slide

12. A Taxi Service
• Hence, the ‘T’ is spelt out

13. 4.
• The Wikipedia article for this 8-letter word is illustrated by a Henri
Vidal sculpture of Cain killing Abel. Since its coining in 2006,
numerous stock brokers, sports fans and various internet have been
associated with this action at certain moments, and it was given its
own Unicode emoji in 2016.
• But the most popular use is an image of the sci-fi character Jean-Luc
Picard from Star Trek.
• What’s the word?

14. Safety Slide

15. Facepalm

16. 5.
• The last time this happened in 1924, it was referred to as the ‘Great
______ of 99’ as it occurred in 'Kolla varsham' (Malayalam calendar)
1099.
• Mahatma Gandhi had termed the misery of the people as
“unimaginable” and stepped in to mobilise over Rs 6,000 to help
them, records show.

17. Safety Slide

18. • Kerala Floods 2018

19. 6.
•In 1933, activist Choudhary Rahmat Ali wrote in
his pamphlet ‘Now or Never’ that ‘30 million
Muslim brethren’ lived in five eastern regions of
the British Raj: Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh
and Balochistan.
•How is this (approximate) region known today
and why?

20. Safety Slide

21. Pakistan
• Punjab
• Afghania
• Kashmir
• Sindh
• Baluchistan
• It’s a portmanteau of the 5 regions’ names.

22. 7.
• Peppa Pig is a British children's television
programme.
• ‘Mister Skinny Legs’, a controversial episode of
Peppa Pig was pulled off the air in Australia for a
second time in 2017, after numerous complaints.
• In the offending episode, Daddy Pig tells a
frightened Peppa that _______ are “very very
small” and “can’t hurt you” after the eponymous
being enters her room. The children are then
depicted picking the _______ up, tucking it into
bed and offering it some tea.
• What was the reason?

23. Safety Slide

24. • It suggested that Spiders are harmless which is totally not true if you
are in Australia

25. 8.
• In 1992, a cable company in Racine, Washington
offered free t-shirts in a television advert during a
major break in a pay-per-view boxing match
between Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe.
• The advert was ‘scrambled’ or encoded in such a
way that their customers would not be able to
see it. This decision was deliberate and helped
the cable company heavily.
• Why?

26. Safety Slide

27. They did this so they could identify cable pirates

28. 9.
• The expression X was popularized after the surprising move on 10 July
2018.
• This included an impressive 30% gain of social media following, stock
prices skyrocketed by 20%, increase in attendance, ticket prices and
much recently on 20th August against Getafe the former club’s
attendance declined.
• What’s the reason?

29. Safety Slide

30. • The Ronaldo Effect
• Cristiano Ronaldo

31. 10. What’s the connect to this (frustratingly
exhaustive) list?
• Rucksack
• Baguette
• Gloves
• A Submarine
• Bells
• Burger
• A Sandwich with bite on left
corner
• A Calendar with 24 on it
• Compass
• A Betel leaf
• Bicycles
• Sunglasses
• Guitar
• A Portrait
• Newspaper
Donut
• Airplane
• Bottle
• Burning Heart with a “W” on it
• Astronaut
• Coffee Mug

32. • WhatsApp Default Backgrounds

33. In 2001, the artist
Milton Glaser got the
idea for this morale-
boosting artwork on
September 12th ,
which lengthened his
1976 original by
300%. What did the
original say?
11.

34. Safety Slide

35. I (heart) New York

36. 12. What is the auditory illusion known as?
• In The Guardian, this clip was compared to the 2015 gold/blue dress
controversy. Notable individuals who responded to this auditory
illusion included Ellen DeGeneres, Stephen King, and Chrissy Teigen.
• In a video released by the White House, various members of the
Trump administration reacted to the meme, and President Donald
Trump said, "I hear covfefe", as a reference to his "covfefe" tweet the
previous year.
• Most people, swear they hear “X” even though the recording, in the
plainest English, some say it’s the word “Y.” Some even claim to be
able to hear both words at once.

37. Safety Slide

38. • Laurel / Yanny

39. 13. Identify X
• Manthiri Kumari is a 1950 Indian Tamil-language
historical fiction film directed by Ellis R. Dungan and
starring M. G. Ramachandran, M. N. Nambiar.
• It’s screenplay was written by X who became the
oldest serving Chief Minister of his state when he
assumed office as Chief Minister in 2006.
• On 3 January 2013, X named Stalin as his heir
apparent, thus ending a long time confusion.
• Stalin took over the office on August 28, 2018.

40. Safety Slide

41. • M. Karunanidhi

42. 14.
• Ecuador is a country in South America,
officially the Republic of Ecuador
(Spanish: República del Ecuador, which
literally translates as “Republic of the X”.
• The image is of Mitad Del Mundo, a very
famous structure in the capital Quito.
• What two letters are hidden in this
image?
• (image slide)

44. Safety Slide

45. • N and S signifying North and South

46. 15.

47. • Ferrets are extremely flexible pets and hence are highly trained ones
were frequently used in the past century.
• This unusual engineering solution was famously used in the
Millennium Concert in London and was called for because organisers
found it impossible to use rods to push the X through the tiny tunnels
which snake about underground.
• This was then also used to put Charles and Diana's wedding on TV
and Boeing used them for aircraft manufacturing.
• What was their job?

48. Safety Slide

49. • Putting cables through inaccessible areas

50. 16.
• In 1858, HH Stephenson performed an exemplary feat for the all-
England eleven against the twenty-two of Hallam at the Hyde Park
ground, Sheffield.
• Being the gentlemen that they were, the other players held a
collection for him, bought something with the proceedings and
presented it to him.
• What did they give him? What did he do?

51. Safety Slide

52. Origin of hattrick
• He took three wickets in three balls
• His teammates collected a prize fund in a hat and gave it to him -
thus hat trick

53. 17.
• In what way is this photo of Lord
Pethick-Lawrence and Mahatma
Gandhi, taken on April 18, 1946
significant even now?

54. Safety Slide

55. Mahatama Gandhi’s image for the Indian
Currency

56. 18.
• Salute is a upcoming movie, expected to be released in 2019.
• Aamir Khan had initially signed for the movie but later walked out and
now Shah Rukh Khan will play the lead role.
• The film is based on X and his ‘journey’ with Yury Malyshev and
Gennadi Strekalov in April, 1984.
• X?

57. Safety Slide

58. • Rakesh Sharma

59. 19. X, Y and Z?
Three divisions of a particular entity have three different ways to
perform this gesture.
X performs this gesture in a certain way as historically they have been
known to have dirty hands.
Y performs this in their own style to show that they can be trusted.
Z performs this gesture in a way that can be considered midway
between the other two.

60. Safety Slide

61. • SALUTE BY INDIAN ARMED FORCES
X: NAVY
Y: ARMY
Z: AIR FORCE

62. 20.
• An X is a monster or evil spirit in Arabic mythology, associated with
graveyards and consuming human flesh. The term was first used in
English literature in 1786, in William Beckford's Orientalist novel
Vathek. In modern fiction, the term has often been used for a certain
kind of undead monster. By extension, the word X, is also used in a
derogatory sense to refer to a person who delights in the macabre, or
whose profession is linked directly to death, such as a gravedigger or
graverobber. The term is etymologically related to the name of a
Mesopotamian demon.
• Identify this monster which is very ‘apt’ for Netflix.

63. Safety Slide

64. • Ghoul

65. • Fin.