1. Grand Finale

2. Rounds
• Round 1 : Tribute (Written Round)
• Round 2 : Mixed Bag
• Round 3 : The Visual Connection
• Round 4 : Amul (Written Round)
• Round 5 : Mixed Bag II

5. Rules

6. * A memorial at Ontario, Canada. It’s a
tribute to whom?

7. * This is Google’s tribute to a person who
gave a new concept to the world.
* Who?

8. * The National Language Council of an
European nation has recently added a
word
to the national dictionary as a tribute to X.
The word, a verb that means ‘to dominate’,
was originally coined on Les Guignols, a
popular satirical puppet show, whose
characters are in awe of X.
* Who is X?

9. * It is Oreo’s tribute to which seminal event
of recent times?

10. * This limited edition pen is a tribute by
Mont Blanc in honour of whom?

13. * A memorial at Ontario, Canada. It’s a
tribute to whom?

14. Alexander Graham Bell

15. * This is Google’s tribute to a person who
gave a new concept to the world.
* Who?

16. Friedrich Fröbel

17. * The National Language Council of an
European nation has recently added a
word
to the national dictionary as a tribute to X.
The word, a verb that means ‘to dominate’,
was originally coined on Les Guignols, a
popular satirical puppet show, whose
characters are in awe of X.
* Who is X?

18. Zlatanera – as a tribute to
Zlatan Ibrahimovich

19. * It is Oreo’s tribute to which seminal event
of recent times?

20. Mars landing by the NASA rover
Curiosity

21. * This limited edition pen is a tribute by
Mont Blanc in honour of whom?

22. Edgar Allan Poe

25. Rules

26. * With which BESU alumnus, would you
associate the following clues?

28. Narayan Sanyal

29. * The End of the Affair (1951) is a novel by
British author Graham Greene, as well as
the title of two movies (released in 1995 &
‘99) that were based on the novel. Greene's
own affair with Lady Catherine Walston
played into the basis for the novel.
* How this novel is associated with the last
venture of a noted Indian?

31. Jab Tak Hai Jaan

32. * This painting by Vasily Vereshchagin,
claimed to be the third largest oil painting
in the world, is preserved in the museum of
the Victoria Memorial at Kolkata. The
event it depicts is the reason for the origin
of a particular sobriquet.
* What is that?
(Bigger vis – next slide)

35. The state entry of King Edward
VII, then Prince of Wales, into
Jaipur in 1876. Jaipur got the
sobriquet ‘Pink City’.

36. * Whose name has been blanked out?

38. Natalie Portman

39. * Generally referred to as the Four-Move
Checkmate, this particular checkmate is
also known in Italian as Barber's Mate and
in Greek as Napoleon's Plan.
* How do we know this move better?
(Animation – next slide)

42. Scholar’s Mate

43. Audience - 1
* Which country’s flag contains flags of
six other countries?

45. Norway

46. * This is a song from the soundtrack of a
popular American tv-series.
* Identify the singer.

48. Anushka Manchanda

49. * Stephen King dedicated his 1989 book,
‘The Dark Half’, to the "deceased
Richard Bachman".
* Who was Richard
Bachman?

51. Stephen King himself. It was his
pseudonym.

52. * Identify the advertiser.

54. Baygon

55. * Though the list is not entirely disclosed,
these are said to be some of the ingredients
of what?
- Mistletoe ;
- Fish ;
- Rock oil from gold (or beetroot juice) ;
- Garlic ;
- Four-leaved clovers of the tamarind tree &
- Lobster(for flavour).

57. Magic Potion, prepared by Getafix

58. * An eternal rivalry since 1925. Explain.

60. East Bengal – Mohun Bagan

61. Audience - 2
* Huey Pierce Long, Jr., nicknamed The
Kingfish, was the 40th Governor of Louisiana.
* George Dewey, an Admiral of the US Navy, is
best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila
Bay during the Spanish-American War.
* Louis Schmitt was an animator at the Disney
Studio.
* How would you connect these three gentlemen?

63. Huey, Dewey & Louie - the three
nephews of Donald Duck were
named after them.

64. * Taupo Motorsport Park is a motorsports
circuit located in New Zealand. On 20th
January 2008, it hosted the fifth race in the
2007-08 A1 Grand Prix season.
* What is so special about that race?

66. It was the first official motor race
in the world in which cars ran on
biofuel.

67. * There is a peculiarity in the naming of
the following water bodies -----
Θ Dal Lake (India)
Θ Lake Chad (Chad)
Θ Lake Nyassa (Mozambique)
Θ Lake Tahoe (USA)
Θ Lake Hyaq (Ethiopia)
Θ Gaube Lake (French Pyrenees)

69. Lake Lake. Tautological names - all
of them essentially mean “lake”.

70. * This type of hat-trick is a very rare
achievement in professional football
matches.
* What is it called?

72. Perfect Hattrick -- scoring goals
using both the feet and head.

73. * Who?

75. Erwin Schrodinger

76. * This device was composed of large
bellows attached to the sides of a boat that
was expandable due to air chambers. The
invention stemmed from the patent holder’s
experience of ferrying travelers and
carrying freight during his earlier days.
* Whose patent? (Visual – next slide)

79. Abraham Lincoln

80. Audience - 3
* It’s the International Symbol of ……

82. Marriage

83. * This particular community in Golehalli, a
tiny village tucked in the forested Haliyal
taluk in Karnataka, celebrated big way on
20th Jan, 2013. They believed that ‘one of
their men’ achieved something big for the
second time.
* What was the occasion?
(Visuals – next slide)

86. The Siddi community celebrated
Barack Obama's swearing-in as
US President for the second time.

87. * These footwears were favoured by the
Ancient Greeks and Romans and can be
worn by both men and women. Originally
were brown or black in colour, the modern
versions can be made in trendy metallics,
bold bright colors and also snakeskin.
* Name this footwear. (Visuals – next slide)

90. Gladiator Sandals

91. * There are only two of its kind. Put funda.

93. Beatles’ song in German language

94. * According to the official press release, the
‘black’ one is produced by a mixture of
potassium perchlorate, anthracene and
sulphur. The ‘white’ one is produced by a
mixture of potassium chlorate, lactose and
pine resin, also known as Greek pitch.
* What is this all about?

96. “White Smoke, Pope; Black
Smoke, Nope: How Conclave
Smoke Gets Its Color”

97. Audience - 4
* What is happening here?

99. The first edition of
the KISS comics
book was printed
using ink mixed
with blood taken
from the KISS
members .

100. * Mona, the mother of Homer Simpson is
named after the popular US novelist Mona
Simpson.
* Death of her estranged elder brother, in
2011, has again brought the novelist Mona
Simpson into limelight.
* Who was novelist Mona Simpson’s elder
brother? (Visuals – next slide)

103. Steve Jobs

106. Rules

121. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

124. Rules

125. * Who is the subject of this Amul ad?

126. * In remembrance of whom?

127. * An international controversy. Put funda.

128. * Again a controversy. Explain.

129. * A recent ‘sensation’. What?

132. * Who is the subject of this Amul ad?

133. Sunita Williams

134. * In remembrance of whom?

135. Tony Greig

136. * An international controversy. Put funda.

137. Facebook deactivates Salman
Rushdie’s account

138. * Again a controversy. Explain.

139. Pragaash Controversy

140. * A recent ‘sensation’. What?

141. Harlem Shake

144. Rules

145. * Residents of this region normally drive
on the left side of the road. However, in
1982, for 2 months, they drove on the right
side.
* Why? (Bigger
vis –next slide)

148. The Falkland Islands, which
Britain controls, were taken over
by Argentina leading to a short
war.

149. * Originally created by Lionel Burt for
fitness reasons - to allow users to play the
same strokes on both sides of their bodies,
and so develop all their muscles at the same
rate. Brian Battistone used it during the US
Open 2012 because he thought that it
benefitted him tactically.
* What am I talking about?

151. Double-handed racket

152. * Identify the group who are carrying
forward a rich musical legacy.

154. Von Trapp Family Singers

155. * Who is the latest entrant in this list?

157. Asin

158. * This flag of a country contains twelve
colours,
three more than on any other national flag. Also,
it is the only country to have human beings
depicted on the flag.
* Name the country.

160. Belize

161. Audience - 5
* Who is the latest entrant in this list?

163. Mohd. Hafeez

164. * This popular breed of dog was once bred
among the emperors of the Chinese Han
dynasty as a lap dog. Those having
markings on their forehead resembling the
Chinese characters for “King” or “Prince”
were considered auspicious.
* Identify this breed of dog.

166. Pug

167. * Which Noble-winning
scientist, prone to day-
dreaming while walking on
streets or whilst riding his
bicycle, was killed on April
19, 1906 when he was run
over by a horse-drawn
wagon while crossing a

169. Pierre Curie

170. * He started and ended his ODI career
with ducks. But enviably, he is the only
Indian batsman to score 3 ODI centuries
within a span of one week.
* Who?

172. VVS Laxman

173. * X was so impressed with this remake of
her hit song that she even invited the
vocalist to her own birthday function to
perform.
* Identify the movie where the original
song was featured.

175. Padosan

176. * What does the ‘NL’ stand for in these
signboards?

178. Noble Laureates

179. Audience - 6
* Which chemical element has been named
after this mytholgical group, shown in
this painting?

181. Titanium

182. * Which popular incident are these kids
enacting under the supervision of photographer
Tricia Messeroux?

184. "Jumping the Couch" incident by
Tom Cruise on the Oprah Winfrey
Show

185. * Put funda. (Clue - 15 May, 2005)

187. On 15 May 2005 at 7.00 a.m. local
time, Venus Williams played a
show game with İpek Şenoğlu on
the Bosphorus Bridge, the first
tennis match ever to be played on
two continents.

188. * Where this particular scene has been shot?

190. Colosseum

191. * As per sources, which work of
literature
has been inspired from these two paintings
by Caspar David Friedrich, titled ‘Man
and Woman Contemplating the Moon’
and ‘Two Men Contemplating the Moon’?
(Paintings – next slides)

195. Waiting For Godot

196. * The word ‘Esquivalience’, defined as the
‘wilful shirking of one’s responsibilities’,
made lexicographic history when it was
included in the New Oxford American
Dictionary, brought out by the Oxford
University Press in 2005.
* Put funda.

198. A fictitious entry put in for
copyright protection.
The word ensnared dictionary.com,
which included an entry for it.

199. Audience - 1
* A screenshot from Django Unchained.
Identify the actor with his hat on.

201. Franko Nero

202. * This Kutiyattam dancer (vis-1) is
enacting a mytholgical character whose
statue has been erected in front of the Wat
Phra Kaew Temple, Thailand (vis-2).
* Identify the mythological figure.
(Visuals – next slide)

205. Raavan

206. * In 1941, Subhash Chandra Bose set up the
Free India Centre in Germany. Following
its formation, the FIC adopted four key
resolutions:
1. Jai Hind would be the official salutation;
2. Jana Gana Mana would be national anthem;
3. Hindustani would be the national language.
* What was the fourth?

208. Subhash Bose will be called Netaji

209. * When caught cheating on his wife, she
exclaimed ‘I am surprised’. The
gentleman replied, ‘No dear, you are
astonished, I am surprised’.
* Who was that gentleman?

211. Noah Webster

212. * 'Whose' nomination for the 2010 Nobel
Peace Prize was proposed by the Italian
edition of the popular Wired magazine, for
promoting ‘dialogue, debate and
consensus through communication’ as
well as democracy?

214. Internet

215. Audience - 8
* Born in an African country but died in
an European country, he was named as
one of the most influential Asian heroes
in 2006. Who?

217. Freddie Mercury

219. * What was established on 24th November,
1856 occupying three rooms in Writers'
Buildings to meet the requirement of
trained efficient personnel for Public
Works Department, Govt. of West
Bengal?