GENERAL QUIZ

FINALS

10 QUESTIONS,CLOCKWISE DIRECTION

INFINTE BOUNDS SYSTEM

10 POINTS FOR THE RIGHT ANSWER

PART POINTS ON THE QM’S DISCRETION

The largest _____ in Asia, exists in

Puliakulam, Coimbatore. What am I talking

about?

GANESHA IDOL

Name: Susan Astronomonov * Has a noticeably strange laugh which

always appears to follow the same pattern of 3 to 5.

* Claims to be the “Monarch of Darkness”. * Has an intelligence approximately equal

to that of a nemesis.

Mandark! Haha. HahaHahaha.

Part I - Union and its TerritoryPart II - Citizenship.Part III – Fundamental RightsPart IV - Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties.Part V - The Union.Part VI - The States.Part VII - States in the B part of the First schedule.Part VIII - The Union TerritoriesPart IX - Panchayat system and Municipalities.Part X - The scheduled and Tribal AreasPart XI - Relations between the Union and the States.Part XII - Finance, Property, Contracts and SuitsPart XIII - Trade and Commerce within the territory of IndiaPart XIV - Services Under the Union, the States and TribunalsPart XV - ElectionsPart XVI - Special Provisions Relating to certain Classes.Part XVII - LanguagesPart XVIII - Emergency ProvisionsPart XIX - MiscellaneousPart XX - Amendment of the ____Part XXI - Temporary, Transitional and Special ProvisionsPart XXII - Short title, date of commencement, Authoritative text in Hindi and Repeals.

THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA

In 1963, an unemployed 27 year old man was arrested for stealing $8 from a bank employee in Phoenix, Arizona. While in custody, he was picked up from a line up by a woman who said he had kidnapped and raped her. After 2 hours of interrogation the police gained a confession but the US Supreme Court threw out the confession.

Who was this man? (A surname will do.)

MIRANDA

THE MIRANDA RIGHTS WERE NAMED AFTER HIM

X are a system of financial incentives designed to keep an employee from leaving the company. These can include employee stock options that will not vest for several years but are more often contractual obligations to give back lucrative bonuses or other compensation if the employee leaves for another company.

X are a response by the companies in industries where it is common for highly paid employees to frequently move from one firm to another, often before the company feels that it has earned a return on the investment in the employee.

More broadly, the term can also refer to any kind of situation in which a generous salary is used to keep an important employee from looking for a more desirable but less certain position.

X ?

GOLDEN HANDCUFFS

Patent Lawsuits filed by different companies

According to legend, during the Samudramanthan, the asura X drank some of the divine nectar. But before the nectar could pass his throat, Mohini (the female avatar of Vishnu) cut off his head. The head, however, remained immortal. Hanuman, in his childhood, famously flew towards the sun, as it appeared to be a big fruit. X arrived and saw Hanuman trying to swallow the sun; little Hanuman, seeing X, was attracted to the curiosity of the disembodied head, and caught him. X?

RAHU

Lord Mountbatten in his Viceroy’s Office. The calendar shows the days left for transfer of power.

ALUMINIUM BAT

MYTHOLOGY SPORTS

SCI & TECH BRANDS

GOVT &POLITICS ENTERTAINMENT

1. The Sensory Organs , 8 Ragas / Dveshas , The 3 Gunas , Vidya and Avidya - as a traveler where do you encounter all this ?

The 18 steps of Sabarimala

2. In Hindu tradition, what are the seeds of Elacocarpus known as?

Rudhrakhsha

1. In the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, medal winners John Carlos and Tommie Smith did the X during the American national anthem. For this, they were barred from further Olympic activities??

BLAC POWER SALUTE

English footballer Jack Reynolds Ajax and Netherlands player and coach Rinus

Michels István Kovács, Romanian footballer and

coach Johan Cruyff

Total Football The tactic in which any outfield player can

assume the role of any other player in the team, pioneered by Ajax from 1969 to 1973, and further used by the Netherlands team in the 1974 World Cup.

Chris Van Allsburg is an American author and illustrator of children's books. One of his most famous works is 'The Polar Express', which was adapted into an Oscar nominated animated film in 2004.

Apart from this, two other works of his, with almost identical plots, have been made into films in 1995 and 2005 respectively. What are their names?

Jumanji and zathura

Martin landau as bela Lugosi And kate blanchett as Katherine Hepburn Only actors to win Oscars portraying other

actors

Why so ????

Indian Express ran a blank editorial in protest of Indira Gandhi’s Press Censorship during emergency. The newspaper decided it would rather not have an editorial column than be a propaganda tool.

This word derives from the practice where Roman politicians would wear white clothes (not unlike Indian politicians today).

Which word is this?

Candidate

It is derived from “clad in white”

X was born in Bavaria, Germany . At the age of 18, he sailed for the United States to join his brothers Jonas, Daniel, and Louis, who had begun a dry goods business in New York City He moved to San Francisco and opened his dry goods wholesale business. On May 20,1873 X and Davis, a local tailor received United States patent for using “copper” rivets to strengthen the pockets of denim pants and began the first to introduce a very famous line of apparel.

Identify X.

LEVI’S

Aritifical Lights (Light Pollution)

The X image was first proposed in October 2003 by Eric S. Raymond, claiming a need for a uniting and recognizable symbol for his perception of their culture. This refers to the culture around BSD, MIT, GNU, Linux, Perl, etc.; that is, the community around free software and open source.

Raymond has said that one does not claim to be a X by displaying this , but suggests that "by using this ,you express sympathy with X's goals, X's values, and the X way of living".

The image itself is a representation of a glider formation in Conway's Game of Life.

X????

THE HACKER’S SYMBOL

10 QUESTIONS,ANTI-CLOCKWISE DIRECTION

INFINITE BOUNDS SYSTEM

10 POINTS FOR THE RIGHT ANSWER

PART POINTS ON THE QM’S DISCRETION

THE AMERICAN GOTHIC

127 games played, 497 plate appearances, 46 runs scored out of 88 hits batting .202 with 3 home runs, 51 runs batted in, 30 stolen bases, and 11 errors.

Whose stats?

MICHAEL JORDAN

During a world changing moment X recalled from the Bhagawad Gita :"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one.” and "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

What event am I talking about? Bonus points for Identifying X.

Trinity explosion. The first ever atomic test. The person is J.Robert Oppenheimer

In the Super Six match between Australia and India during the 1999 World Cup, Robin Singh was out as mentioned in the scorecard:

RR Singh c Reiffel b Moody 75 (94)

but commentators felt it was a controversial dismissal. Actually how was he out?

ROBIN SINGH TRIED TO HIT THE BALL OVER THE BOUNDARY……BUT THE BALL HIT A PIEGEON AND THE CATCH WAS TAKEN

X is an African Philosophy focusing on people's allegiances and relations with each other.

Nelson Mandela explains X as follows : “A traveller through a country would stop at a village

and he didn't have to ask for food or for water. Once he stops, the people give him food, entertain him. That is one aspect of X, but it will have various aspects. X does not mean that people should not enrich themselves. The question therefore is: Are you going to do so in order to enable the community around you to be able to improve?”

The Symphony No. 5 in C minor, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1804–08. This symphony is one of the most popular and best-known compositions in all of classical music, and one of the most often played symphonies. It comprises four movements: an opening sonata, an andante, and a fast scherzo which leads attaccato the finale. First performed in Vienna's Theater an derWien in 1808, the work achieved its prodigious reputation soon afterwards. E. T. A. Hoffmann described the symphony as "one of the most important works of the time".

It begins by stating a distinctive four-note "short-short-short-long" motif twice.

Y always begins any dialogue with these 4 notes.

• X is a 1997 Iranian film written and directed by MajidMajidi. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1998.

• It deals with a brother and sister and their adventures over a lost pair of shoes.

• X premiered in February 1997 at the Teheran Fajr Film Festival and was awarded several national film awards. It opened in the US on 22 January 1999, with a total US box office total of $930,000.

• Critical response to the film was very positive. Some critics compared it to Vittorio de Sica's 1948 Bicycle Thieves.

• Bumm Bumm Bole, a 2010 Hindi film by Priyadarshan, and starring Darsheel Safary, is entirely based on X.

Originating in 2000, this sport usually consists of four categories:

1. Original: an over-the-shoulder throw with the farthest distance winning

2. Freestyle: contestants get points for aesthetics and creative choreography

3. Team original: up to three competitors have one throw each with their scores added together

4. Junior: for children aged 12 or younger. The current world records are: Men - 95.83 meters (Chris Hughff - 2007) Women - 53.52 meters (Jan Singleton - Aug 2006)

How do we better know Maching BirdEgg Beater, Wood Breaker,Glass Jaw, Parabeak, and Kamikaze Bird?

GOOGLE’S 13TH ANNIVERSARY DISCOVERY OF X-RAYS BY ROENTGEN AKIRO KUROSAWA 2500 YEARS SINCE THE FIRST MARATHON PI DAY ANANT PAI BRUCE LEE AGATHA CHRISTIE GREGOR MENDEL ALAM ARA

8 SLIDES POINTS: 5*(TEAMS NOT ANSWERING) 2 GUESSES PER TEAM NO NEGATIVES THEME TO BE WRITTEN DOWN AND

SHOWED TO QM.

Authors who have written only one novel.

A Confederacy of Dunces -John Kennedy Toole

Invisible Man-Ralph Ellison Dr Zhivago- Boris Pasternak The Picture of Dorian Gray-Oscar Wilde Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte Black Beauty-Anna Sewell Catcher In the Rye-J D Salinger To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee