Jisko Aana Hai Aao Quiz

By Nikhil Kumar Gupta

Rules

Direct: +10 Pass: +10 Pounce +20/-10 QM is neither omnipotent nor benevolent but he

is God.

Written Round

2 points for every correct answer no negs.

Questions

1. early 15c., from Latin _______ "a hearing," past participle of ______ "hear". Official examination of something, which originally was an oral procedure. What word am I talking about?

2. Cross section of what that falls in a list with guitars and startups.

3. What are these called? (Hint: a pun on the word for a moving mechanical device made in imitation of a human being.)

4. Funda?

5. In addition to being huge battle robots of death, the ________ _______ also boast a blind spot in excess of 300 degrees. The thing can't turn its head.

This is not a minor issue. That up there is an X trying to shoot an enemy ship that's flying past it. That's as far as it gets; it's like a huge, muscular guy who happens to have his head frozen in a neck brace due to a crippling spinal injury. The only difference being that guy could still conceivably punch an enemy by swinging at him wildly.

What am I talking about? (Where you have first seen it will do as long as you be specific where exactly)

6. According to an urban myth, what do the new (issued in 2011) Canadian Dollar bills smell like when rubbed at a specific “panel” on the note?

7. Parks and Recreation pulled out all the stops for its season six finale, with an imposing cameo from none other than X and Madmen’s John Hamm.

X appeared early in the hour-long special, playing herself as a keynote speaker in the National Parks Conference.

After bumping into Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) in the corridorX encourages her to take a new job with the National Parks Service in Chicago.

‘You know how I feel about Chicago,’ said the X, 50, who was dressed in a fetching high-necked polka dot dress.

Completely star struck and physically dwarfed by X Leslie bumbles through the conversation: Nervously shouting and instigating a cringingly embarrassing high five.

‘I agree with you on all things, throughout history and until the end of time forever,’ gushes Leslie, nodding inanely.

‘Well I hope you take the job,’ replies X, whose ‘Let’s Move’ fitness campaign was incorporated into the script of the widely-popular NBC comedy.

‘Change happens one person at a time,’ she adds, with the gravitas of a presidential speech

8. Tell me the name or the ruler of this country.

Answers

1. Audit 2. DSLR 3. Otamatone (Automatone not accepted as

answer) 4. Locations of SAP Labs (:P) 5. Imperial Walker/ AT-AT Walker/ Empire

Strikes Back/ Battle of Hoth. 6. Maple syrup 7. Michelle Obama 8. Latveria/ Doctor Doom

Question 1According to Twitter accounts like HistoricalPics, the sight of ___ _____ _______ __ ______ for the very first time in 1937 was scandalous enough to cause a car accident . Except that it didn't. And it wasn't the first time _____ ____ ______ __ ______.According to the City of Toronto Archives, it was not only staged, but that they have plenty of other photos of _____ _______ ______ that predate this one. And if you spend even half a second looking at the image, you'll notice plenty of clues that it's a staged photo.For example, there is not a single dent on the car.FITB, or give the general theme of the photograph.

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Question 2In 1988, Larry Livermore, owner of Lookout! Records, saw the band play an early show and signed the group to his label. In 1989, the band recorded its debut extended play, 1,000 Hours. Before 1,000 Hours was released, the group dropped the name Sweet Children; according to Livermore, this was done to avoid confusion with another local band Sweet Baby. The band adopted the name X, due to the members' fondness for cannabis.Give X

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Green Day

Question 3A "X" is a military member who relies heavily on presentation software to the point of excess. Some junior officers spend the majority of their time preparing ___________ ______. Because of its usefulness for presenting mission briefings, it has become part of the culture of the military, but is regarded as a poor decision-making tool. As a result, some generals, such as Brigadier-General Herbert McMaster, have banned the use of ___________ in their operations. In September 2010, Colonel Lawrence Sellin was fired from his post at the ISAF for publishing a piece critical of the over-dependence of military staffs on the what is being talked about and bloated bureaucracy.Give X or give funda. (Only X accepted in pounce)

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PowerPoint Ranger

Question 4Albert Wegener was born in 1880 in Berlin. Always restless and more of a doer than a thinker, he switched his college major from astronomy to meteorology because “astronomy offered no opportunity for physical activity.” Upon graduation, Wegener signed on for meteorological expeditions to Iceland and Greenland in 1906 and 1908.While on tour in 1910, Wegener noticed something remarkable about the coastlines of South America and Africa. He was not the first scientist to notice this , but one of the first tothink that it was important.What did Wegner notice which ultimately led to the proposition of a widely accpeted theory today?

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He noticed the perfect fit between the coastlines of South America and Africa (like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle)Led to the discovery of Continental Drift

Question 5About what did Mark Twain said the following?

“It is wonderful, the power of a faith like that, that can make multitudes upon multitudes of the old and weak and the young and frail enter without hesitation or complaint upon such incredible journeys and endure the resultant miseries without repining. It is done in love, or it is done in fear; I do not know which it is. No matter what the impulse is, the act born of it is beyond imagination, marvellous to our kind of people, the cold whites.”

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Kumbh Mela

Question 6She appeared in an unfinished novel of writer Rushwa’s and there are some British documents that say Azizan Bai (a rebel in the 1857 war) claims to have been taught by her.

But largely, it is difficult to separate fact from fiction about this person.

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Umrao Jan

Question 7The following slide contains the picture of a coelacanth, a fish discovered in 1938 at a time when all scientists believed that this fish had been extinct for 80 million years. What semi-scientific term has been attributed to this fish based on the fact that it has remained unchanged for over 400 million years, and is a close relative of the fish that, hundreds of millions of years ago, was thefirst creature to crawl out of the sea onto land—the first amphibian, the first land creature.

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Living Fossil

Question 8Interestingly, the origin of X was more because of the medicinal properties that the ingredients used proffered than as a sweet. It is said that these X were given to teenage girls to keep their raging hormones under check. In fact treatment, and not indulgence, was what led to the discovery of some of the popular X including methi, makhana and sonth.What is X?

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Ladoo

Question 9In 2013's Wimbledon tournament, seven-time Wimbledon champ Roger Federer was told his shoes were too much and he would need to switch them for the next match. This was done to uphold a tradition that dates back to the 1800s and which the US Open has let go in 1972. What tradition/what was wrong with Fedex’s shoes? Need both.

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Question 10A sin-eater is a person who consumes a ritual meal in order to magically take on the sins of a person or household. Traditionally, the food was believed to absorb the sins of a recently deceased person, thus absolving that person's soul. Consequently, sin-eaters supposedly carried the sins of all people whose souls they "ate."

In anthropology and the study of folklore, sin-eating is classified as apotropaic ritual and a form of religious magic.Mah koosan is, in what specific fashion did the ritual meal take place?

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The food was handed across or placed on the corpse of the recently deceased person for consumption.

Written Round - II

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AnswersKane in Alien (1979)John Merrick in The Elephant Man(1980)The Horned King in The Black Cauldron (1985)Gilbert Colvile in White Mischief (1987)Mr Ollivander in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)

Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm in Hellboy (2004)Professor Oxley in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

The Doctor / The War Doctor from Doctor Who (TV Series)(2013)

Question 11The Antikythera mechanism was discovered in 45 metres (148 ft) of water in the Antikythera shipwreck off Point Glyphadia on the Greek island of Antikythera. The wreck was found in April 1900 by a group of Greek sponge divers, who retrieved numerous artefacts, including bronze and marble statues, pottery, unique glassware, jewellery, coins, and the mechanism.Generally referred to as the first known analogue computer, it was used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for calendrical and astrological purposes, as well as the Olympiads, the cycles of the ancient Olympic Games. It is not known how the mechanism came to be on the cargo ship, but it has been suggested that it was being taken from Rhodes to Rome, together with other looted treasure, for what purpose?(Hint: it is estimated to have been created around the late second century BC)

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In support of a triumphal parade being staged by Julius Caesar

Question 13

Gurugram-26th DecemeberPanji-28th DecemberNew Delhi-30th DecemberWhat??

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DigiDhan Mela

Question 14The night before the first fight between Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston, on February 24, 1964, the TV show “I’ve Got A Secret” featured Clay and Liston's sparring partners as guests. Harvey Jones brought with him a lengthy rhyming boast from Cassius Clay:Clay comes out to meet Liston and Liston starts to retreat, If Liston goes back an inch farther he'll end up in a ringside seat.Clay swings with a left, Clay swings with a right, Just look at young Cassius carry the fight. Liston keeps backing but there's not enough room, It's a matter of time until Clay lowers the boom. Then Clay lands with a right, what a beautiful swing, And the punch raised the bear clear out of the ring. Liston still rising and the ref wears a frown, But he can't start counting until Sonny comes down. Now Liston disappears from view, the crowd is getting frantic But our radar stations have picked him up somewhere over the Atlantic. Who on Earth thought, when they came to the fight, That they would witness the launching of a human satellite. Hence the crowd did not dream, when they laid down their money, That they would see a total eclipse of Sonny.— Cassius Clay, As read on CBS' I've Got a Secret

Jesse Bowdry brought a much terser written message from Sonny Liston:Cassius, you're my _______ ______ ____, so please don't let anything happen to you before tomorrow night.— Sonny Liston, As read on CBS' I've Got a Secret

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Question 15

In 1971, three medical professors at the Duke University School of Medicine collaborated on The Anatomical Basis of Medical Practice, an anatomy textbook that has since become equivalent of “cult hit” among medical students in the USA for featuring what exactly?

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Question 16

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Question 17

Liu DeJian, the chairman of NetDragon Websoft, sought permission from the CBS broadcasting network in the US to create a $160m homage in the form of their HQ in the south-eastern province of Fujian, which was built between 2008 and 2014 and is the only officially-licensed ____ ____ replica building in the world.Image on next slide

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The building is shaped like the USS Enterprise

Question 18Give Funda behind this giant metal spehere lying at about the center of Zagreb, Croatia

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It is the central piece of a ambiental installation called Nine Views. At the center of town lies a giant ball representing our sun. And dotted throughout the city are the planets in our solar system.

Question 19Jeff DelPapa (aka "rjnerd"), notes that the "_______ _______" made the leap to electronic communication in late 1979 on the "SF-Lovers" mailing list hosted by the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. At the time, the list participants were discussing the first Star Trek movie, and Roger Duffy, the moderator of the list, put appropriate _______ _______ on messages when he compiled them in digest form. Soon there was a new kind of forum for fans who wanted to converse: Usenet newsgroups, the earliest Internet discussion groups. The phrase "_______ _____" first appears in a posting about the second Star Trek movie, The Wrath of Khan, in 1982.

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SPOILER ALERT!

Question 20Eddie Eagan, USAJacob Tullin Thams, Norway.Christa Luding-Rothenburger, East GermanyClara Hughes, CanadaGive connect (5 points)+What is special about third entry?(5 points)

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Connect: Only four athletes to have won medals in both the Winter and Summer OlympicsPart 2: Luding-Rothenburger is the only athlete to ever win medals in both Winter and Summer Games in the same year (1988)

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