1. Conducted by Satyajit Chetri

2.  The quizmaster has a flight to catch at 9 in
the morning. Therefore, some portions of the
quiz might go by faster than you think they
should.

3.  8 questions.

4. Which deity?

5. What does the map depict?

6. Which mythical monster?

7. What new technology?

8. Which city is this TV series, produced by Martin Scorcese and starring Steve Buscemi,
based in?

9. Sylized Polish poster of which Hollywood movie?

10. Which two kings?

11. Cover by Margaret Brundage, featuring an early representation of which character?

13.  Chaitanya

14.  Blu ray regions

15.  Kraken

16.  The Square,
used for
making credit
card payments
through your
iphone

17.  Atlantic City

18.  Alien

19.  Alexander vs Porus

20.  Conan the
Barbarian

21.  16 questions, clockwise.
 Infinite bounce.

22.  Zangaléwa is a 1986 hit song in a language
called Fang, originally sung by a group called
Golden Sounds , and the song was such a hit that
they changed their name to Zangaléwa, too. The
song pays tribute to skirmishers during WW II.
Most of the band members were in the Army
themselves and the song is still used today
almost everywhere by soldiers and policemen
usually during training or for rallying. Give me
the words of the chorus.

24.  This particular quizzing fallacy came into vogue
from the French practice of using stencils to
design and print X. The French outperformed the
Germans and Spanish manufacturers so that
their versions, to which they assigned identities,
was more popular. The four names were
however never consistent, differing according to
the personal whims of the manufacturers. The
practice of printing the names stopped with the
French revolution, after which symbols of
monarchy were considerably downplayed. What
am I talking about?

25.  Charlemagne, David, Julius Caesar and
Alexander as the Kings on playing cards.

26.  In the director's own words - "The wedding
scene is so integral to our culture that I suddenly
thought ‘How can I do another wedding scene
without repeating myself?’" With inspiration for
the horror elements from Ridley Scott’s sci-fi
classic Alien, Brian De Palma’s adaptation of
Stephen King's Carrie, and John Landis’ 1981
horror classic An American Werewolf in London, it
was pitched as "My Big Fat Greek Wedding meets
Shaun Of The Dead". Which movie?

28.  The original Hebrew term for the place is "Yam Suph".
Although this has traditionally been thought to refer
to the salt water inlet located between Africa and the
Arabian peninsula, this is a mistranslation from the
Greek Septuagint, and the word suph means "reeds."
James Hoffmeier equates "yam suf" with the Egyptian
term pa-tjufy, which refers to lakes in the eastern Nile
delta. Historian Kenneth Kitchen therefore posits two
sites between Lake Timsah and the southern extent of
the Ballah Lakes, where reeds tolerant of salt water
flourish.
 What is this an explanation for?

29.  Moses and the crossing of the Red Sea.
 Historians think that the reeds slowed down
the pharaoh’s chariots.

30. Many ____ users send us enquiries as to which is the correct
way of pronouncing ____. The answer is: there is no
predetermined answer.
_____ is a brand name with undefined national identity. And
that's the way we like it. As a literary name, it was used by
British travel writer Bruce Chatwin in his book "The Songlines",
referred to the (items) he usually bought from a store in Paris.
Everyone should feel free to pronounce it as he/she prefers.
Enjoy.
 Seen on the company’s website. What company/product?

31.  Moleskine notebooks.

32.  There are multiple reasons why recent biographers
refuse to attribute the words to X. The first was that
there were no actual famines during that time period,
barring two incidents of serious shortages. The second
reason is that the first mention of those words come
in the autobiography Confessions where they are
attributed to an anonymous member of royalty, and
at that time X was 13 years old, too young to have
said those words. The third and most illuminating
reason is that a similar sentence was attributed to
Emperor Hui of Jin in the 3rd Century. What words and
who is X?

33.  “Let Them Eat Cake”

34.  X Diplomacy is a term used to describe China's use of
X as diplomatic gifts to other countries. The practice
existed as far back as the Tang Dynasty, when
Empress Wu Zetian (625 – 705) offered a pair to the
Japanese emperor. One such example was Chairman
Mao Zedong's gift to U.S. president Richard Nixon in
1972 after Nixon's historic visit to China. It proved to
be so successful that British Prime Minister Edward
Heath asked for them for the United Kingdom during
a visit to China in 1974. Since 1984, however, they
have been offered to other nations only on 10-year
loans, with a fee of up to US$ 1,000,000 per year and
ancillary conditions. Identify X.

36.  After the birth of a 14th child, Gauhar in
Burhanpur (present-day Madhya Pradesh),
who was buried for some years at Burhanpur
in a walled garden known as Zainabad, on the
bank of the Tapti River?

38.  In the film 'The Social Network', during one of the
depositions, it is mentioned that the invention of
Facebook made Mark Zuckerburg "the biggest thing on a
campus that included nineteen Nobel Laureates, fifteen
Pulitzer Prize winners, two future Olympians, and a movie
star." One of the lawyers then asks, "Who was the movie
star?" and the response is, "Does it matter?"
 Who is being referred to?
 (The movie star was enrolled at Harvard from 1999 to
2003 and helped screenwriter Aaron Sorkin by providing
him insider information about goings-on at Harvard at the
time Facebook first appeared there)

40. A particular sporting instrument has the following
components.
 Spring-loaded/magnetic rest, Back, Belly, Sight, Sling,
Grip, Limbs, Nock point, Riser, Tab or Thumb ring, Tiller,
___.
Modern versions of it also have optional/modern
components called Clicker, Kisser, Plunger Button,
Stabilizers.
Identify instrument and the one, crucial component in
the instrument.

42.  It is erroneously believed that the Beatles started this
subculture. In the 1980s, several punk bands and
individuals were introduced to it because of an India-
influenced person named Larry Pugliese, who
established a house in nearby northern New Jersey for
fellow devotees to live in, and sponsored free food
distribution and clothing drives as well as concerts for
the punks and skinheads hanging out in Lower East
Side. Early devotees included John Joseph and Harley
Flanagan of the band Cro-Mags, Ray Cappo of Youth
of Today, Shelter, Cro-Mags, Run Devil Run, Request
Denied, Poly Styrene and Lora Logic of X-Ray Spex.
Which subculture?

44.  Among the oldest cities in Bihar, there are
multiple etymologies behind the name - some
say that the name means "gate broken", for the
gates of Hindu Qila broken at Qila Ghat in 1326
AD when Tughlaq forces captured the last Hindu
state in North India, ruled by Harisinghdeva.
Other explanations say that the name is a
distorted form of a word that means "Gate to
Bengal", yet others claim that the name comes
from the name of the military head of the
Tughlaq forces. Which place?

45.  Darbhanga

46.  X contains radioactive potassium-40 and have a
radiologic profile of 3520 picocuries per kg, or
roughly 520 picocuries per 150g. They are
radioactive enough to regularly cause false
alarms on radiation sensors used to detect
possible illegal smuggling of nuclear material at
US ports. The X equivalent dose is the radiation
exposure received by eating a single X. By
comparing the exposure from radiation leaks to
a X equivalent dose, a more intuitive assessment
of the actual risk can sometimes be obtained.
What's X?

48.  Two brothers were killed by two different
incarnations of Vishnu. For full points,
identify both the brothers and the two
incarnations.

49.  Hiranyaksha, Varaha avatar
 Hiranyakashipu, Narasimha avatar

50.  The ___ ____ card was aimed at 10-14 year-
olds, and was promoted as teaching kids age
10 to 15 to "learn great money-management
skills," while at the same time urged young
cardholders to "shop 'til you drop". Peter
Klamka, president of Legend Credit, the
company that developed this card, said - "If
one teenager gets the card, others see it and
want it too. It's kind of like Nascar for young
women."

52.  Neuro-psychoanalyst Mark Blechner
identifies the "___ ______ phenomenon" in
which the same sexual act can affect people
in different ways at different times,
depending on their subjectivity, based on two
passages in the novel where ____ _____ is at
first unexcited during intercourse, and then
proceeds to become intensely excited. Which
book/character?

54.  Paul Harris is an English choreographer, dance teacher
and movement director in film, television and theatre,
with experience in historical dance, salsa, tango,
ballroom dancing. His most prestigious non-dance
sequence would be the wand combat sequences in
Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix. Harris shot
into the limelight by choreographing the a crucial
scene in a 1999 movie, a scene which has been
spoofed and copied in umpteen films and TV series -
from Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back to Ocean's
Twelve, to the TV series Leverage. Which
movie/scene?

55.  The laser-trip sequence in Entrapment,
starring Catherine Zeta-Jones.

56.  Body temperature
 Pulse rate (or heart rate)
 Blood pressure
 Respiratory rate
 The song is Jojo’s Woh Kaun Thi.

58.  Jojo’s Woh Kaun Thi.
 Copied lock, stock and barrel from a song of
the same name by Pakistani band Vital Signs.
 The four are considered the vital signs
determining mortality.

59.  From the album The Constant, by Coco
Sumner. Whose daughter is she?

60.  Sting ( Gordon Sumner)

61. Nothing else to say, really.

62.  20 visuals
 One connect
 After connect is done, you can score points
by specifying the individual connects.

84.  Theme = Self portraits.

109.  Bourbon.
 Bourbon dynasty from France.
 Bourbon, Kentucky, from which the whisky
gets its name.
 An ad for Bourbon biscuits.

111.  Mohawk.
 Mr T’s hairstyle.
 Mohawk Indian.

113.  Scorpio, Logan, Axe and Xylo.
 Mahindra cars.

114.  ID movie, and
why is it in the
news
recently?

115.  Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey.
 Removed from the Mumbai University
Syllabus at the behest of Aditya Thackeray.

117.  Cherubim were fierce angels with heads of
men, goat, lions and wings of an eagle.
 Putto( plural putti) were little babies with
wings.
 Modern English usage has made putti
equivalent to cherubs.

119.  The poster for Expendables, supposedly
inspired by this Polish poster for Alfred
Hitchcock’s The Birds.

120.  An American house
style popular from the
mid-1890s to the late
1930s, incorporates
elements of the FL
Wright's Prairie School
and the Craftsman
styles. The name comes
from its floor-plan,
which was tailored to
narrow lots and with an
efficient layout.

121.  Four-square

122.  Her name, in Greek, means
"burner of ships". In the
Odyssey, she's a virtuous
princess of Phaeacia who
helps Ulysses be accepted in
her father's court, and
despite wanting to marry
him, aids him in his quest to
return home. Most known in
popular culture for a famous
anime from the 80s. Who?

127.  Landlocked countries.
 Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein, doubly-
landlocked countries.

129.  Burning Man, Lilith Fair, Bonnaroo, Aquarius.
 Names of music/counterculture festivals.

132.  London based-duo on the first track, one of
them scored the background to the recent
film, which the song is taken. ID duo/film.

133.  Badmarsh and Sri.
 Striker.

134. Song by Motherjane, the band.

135.  The name Maktub is an Arabic word that
came from Paulo Coelho's novel The
Alchemist, which translates into "it is written"
or "destiny"

137.  A Study in Pink
 The Blind Banker
 The Great Game
 What are these?

138.  Episodes of the BBC TV series Sherlock.

139.  Who does this
painting
represent? ( the
exact name
please)

140.  Columbia.

141.  The two variants of this are Speed and
Woods. The latter was the more preferred
version because of the advantages the terrain
offered, but the former developed because of
a popular location in South California that
contained roofless plywood buildings. It was
also more configurable, which is why it is the
preferred variant for formalized versions.
What am I talking about?

142.  Paintball.

143.  Photograph taken
in an Islington
Underground
station in the
autumn of 1967.
Who was the
much-
embarrassed
subject of the
graffiti?

145.  Which popular urban legend is debunked by
these three pictures?

146.  That Coca Cola made Santa Claus wear red
and white because of their branding.
 These Christmas issues are from 1908, 1918
and 1923, while Coca Cola’s ads came out in
1927.

148.  Sherlock Holmes – known Cokehead.
 Columbia. 
 Speed is a Coke derivative.(bad, I know)
 Clapton covered JJ Cale’s Cocaine.
 Coca Cola and the Coke rumors.