Name: __________________________________________________

College: __________________________________________________

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1. ___________, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Staten Island. Complete the list.

2. The name of this 1999 film, based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who goes on to become a NASA scientist, is an anagram of the name of the book which it is based on. Name both.

3. Simple. Who holds the record for the most points won in a tennis match?

4. A X is a pair of women's shorts with a flap of fabric in front to make it look like a skirt.

5. The working title for this movie was La bella confusione (The Beautiful Confusion) proposed by co-screenwriter, Ennio Flaiano, but the director then "had the simpler idea (which proved entirely wrong) to call it Comedy.

6. Dirty joke. "What's the difference between a circus and a strip club?"- "The circus has a bunch of _____ _____” Fill in the blanks with a spoonerism which also is the name of a Metallica concert video album.

7. Who is the sitting MP from the Pune constituency?

8. During World War I, the letters “X” were used to denote equipment made from Y, such as metal trash cans, in U.S. Army inventories and supply records. U.S. soldiers sardonically referred to incoming German artillery shells as “X cans”. In that same war, “X” started being said as an adjective of anything having to do with the Army.

9. In printing, X was a printing plate cast from movable type. When letters were set one at a time, it made sense to cast a phrase used repeatedly as a single slug of metal.

10. Give one word:

a one-movement orchestral piece by Maurice Ravel

a name given to certain slow-tempo latin music and its associated dance and song.

a short jacket with long sleeves, also known as a "shrug".

An Indian midsize SUV

11. He began taking photographs as a freelancer for the Berliner Tageblatt in the 1920s. He later moved to the US because of oppression in Hitler's Nazi Germany. He worked as a photographer for Life magazine from 1936 to 1972 and his photos appeared on 90 Life covers. His most famous photograph is of an American sailor kissing a young woman on VJ day in Times Square.

12. The Codex Leicester (also briefly known as Codex Hammer) is a collection of largely scientific writings by X. In 1994, Bill Gates bought it at an auction for US$30.8 million, making it the most expensive book ever sold until then.

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13. [[A boy sits in a barrel which is floating in an ocean.]] Boy: I wonder where I'll float next ? What?

14. A mathematician named __X__

Thought the ___Y___ strip was divine.

Said he: "If you glue

The edges of two,

You'll get a weird bottle like mine." Give both X and Y.

15. It is the ancient and classical Greek word for fish. The phrase “JESUS CHRIST, GOD'S SON, SAVIOUR” in Greek is an acrostic leading to this word .It is said to have been used by Early Christians as a secret symbol and now known colloquially as the "sign of the fish" or the "Jesus fish”.

16. This fear has, in some cases elaborated to the extent that those who could afford it would make all sorts of arrangements so that this would be avoided. Arrangements include safety coffins with glass lids for observation, ropes to bells for signaling, and breathing pipes for survival until rescued. What?

17. It is a type of nominal compound that refers to something that is not specified by the compound's parts. It literally means "much rice" in the Sanskrit language. Example of such words is sabretooth. For instance, a sabretooth is neither a sabre nor a tooth: it is an extinct feline with saber-like fangs. What are such words called?

18. Jim Gordon is an American recording artist, musician and songwriter. He was the drummer in the blues-rock supergroup X. In 1983, Gordon, at the time an undiagnosed schizophrenic, murdered his mother and was sentenced to sixteen years to life in prison. He is best known today for composing the second half of Y.

19. This German chemist’s earlier work included an investigation of succinic acid, and the preparation of phenyl cyanide (better known as benzonitrile), the simplest nitrile of the aromatic series. Among the analytical methods he worked up the best known is that for the estimation of sugars, which uses a solution of copper sulfate mixed with alkali and Rochelle salt. Who?

20. With 10 victories in just over 170 hours of flying time, he is India's first (and till date, only) flying ace. Name this World War I hero.

21. The Antirrhinum Majus (literally meaning: like a nose/snout) is a species of flowering plants native to the Mediterranean region. In India it is commonly known as the Dog Flower due to the flower's tendency to open its mouth when squeezed from the sides. How is it commonly known the world over?

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22. In 356 BC, he set fire to the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus and proudly claimed credit in an attempt to immortalize his name in history. He was executed and the mentioning of his name was forbidden under penalty of death. His name lived on in classical literature and has passed into modern languages as a term for someone who commits a criminal act in order to bask in the resultant notoriety.

23. Connect:

• A race of humanoid monsters in the game Dungeons & Dragons

• a tropical cyclone that forms in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, to the west of the dateline

• the outer part of the cytoplasm of a cell

• Any of various marine crustaceans of the subclass Cirripedia that in the adult stage form a hard shell and remain attached to submerged surfaces, such as rocks and ships' bottoms.

24. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as transient apical ballooning syndrome, is a type of disease in which there is a sudden temporary weakening of the myocardium (the muscle of the heart). Because this weakening can be triggered by emotional stress, such as the death of a loved one, a break-up, or constant rejection, the condition is also known as X syndrome

25. This English cricketer was also a gifted footballer and played at outside-left for Arsenal. His last match was the 1950 FA Cup Final, which Arsenal won. He also won 14 wartime caps for England. He was one of the first professional sportsmen to build on popular appeal, notably through his Brylcreem advertisements. In retirement he wrote several books, worked as a journalist, PR consultant, and advertising agency director.

26. It is a small volcanic island in the Andaman Islands 160 miles from Burma and 160 miles from Port Blair. Its name is thought to have been derived from the Sanskrit for "Pit of Hell" and was claimed by Burma till 1986. Identify.

27. Magician X and writer Y were at one point of time friends. Later, in the 1920s, X went on to become a prominent opponent of the Spiritualist movement, which Y was a part of. Although X insisted that Spiritualist mediums employed trickery and consistently exposed them as frauds, Y became convinced that X himself possessed supernatural powers—a view expressed in his book The Edge of the Unknown. X was apparently unable to convince Y that his feats were simply illusions, leading to a bitter public falling out between the two.

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28. Samuel Hunter Christie was a British scientist who in 1833 described a certain 'diamond' method, in his paper on the magnetic and electrical properties of metals. However, the method went unrecognized until 1843, when X proposed it, in another paper, presenting it as Christie’s invention. The method however is associated with X to this date. What?

29. The name of this dish is derived from a 19th century Qing Dynasty noble Zuo Zongtang. Invented by Peng Jia, a Taiwanese chef in New York it is a sweet-and-spicy batter fried chicken dish which was introduced as a mix of Schezwan and Hunan Style cooking. Identify.

30. This 20th Century Novel by Mikhail Bulgakov is written around the premise of the devil's visit to the Soviet Union. A satire on a bureaucratic social order characteristic of Soviet Russia, it features an embittered author coping with the rejection of his historical novel about Pontius Pilate and Jesus and his mistress. Name this masterpiece which is also said to have been the premise for the Rolling Stones' 'Sympathy for the Devil'.

31. Coined by editor Dave Carnie to describe the kind of relationships that develop between skaters who spend a great deal of time together it is defined as a form of homosocial intimacy between two or more men. What term are we talking about?

32. The theories behind the origin of the name of this region vary. While some believe it is an anglicised version of the Malayalam term for 'Hilly Region' its name may also be derived from the Sanskrit 'tamalapattram' literally meaning 'dark tree leaves'. Identify.

33. She was one of the first popular female jazz singers. Her 1929 song "Daddy Won't You Please Come Home" was featured in the video game Bioshock 2 in 2010. She was known as "The Personality Girl," and her trademark was saying "That's all," in a childish voice at the end of many of her records. Identify.

34. This term comes from a type of coarse undyed cloth made near Dongri Killa (also called Fort George) in Bombay which was sold to navies as sail cloth or used by the economically weaker classes to make garments. Now more commonly known as a type of overall clothing. What is the term?

35. Designed by Robert Tor Russell based upon an outline by W. H. Nichollas; named after a duke who was a member of the Royal Family the architects hoped that it's horse shoe shape would bring good luck to the merchants who would later manage their businesses here. Identify this famous landmark.

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36. "That night she cradled me in her arms and soothed me; told me what I needed to be told; strengthened me."

"On that night of 12 May 1994, I needed that love _______ gave me, selfishly. I devoured it to give me strength. I was an animal following my instinct."

Identify the author of these lines, nominated for the Bad Sex Award this year.

37. A portmanteau of the Japanese word for egg and the English word watch, it has sold over 70 million units worldwide. It is a hand held digital pet whose care and upkeep is the responsibility of the owner of the device through three buttons on the egg shaped handheld. Name this phenomenon.

38. This word originated in the 1770s in British India, where the soldiers went hunting for a bird whose excellent natural camouflage made it very difficult to locate. This word was used as a badge of respect for skilled hunters who later brought their catch to the market. What popular word are we talking about?

39. X was born Farrokh Bulsara in the British protectorate of Zanzibar, East Africa. His parents were Parsis from Gujarat in British India. In 2006, Time Asia named him as one of the most influential Asian heroes of the past 60 years and in 2009, a Classic Rock poll saw him voted the greatest rock singer of all time. Who?

40. Physicists sum it up as "To be decayed or not to be decayed, that is the analytically unsolvable question". What is the popular term for this phenomenon?

41. Natalie McDonald was a girl suffering from a terminal illness, and so she wouldn't live to see the end of something. So she wrote to its creator; after her death, the creator decided to honour the girl by a mention in X. Gimme X

42. X is one of the most important forms of classical Tamil poetry. It is a very short poetic form, exactly in 2 lines, the first line consisting of 4 words and the second line consisting of 3. It consists of 1330 poems in 133 chapters (each chapter consists of 10 poems). What is X?

43. The name of this place in Jaisalmer district, means “the place of five mirages”. It is associated with a legend where Ram once fitted his bow with an arrow to generate heat to dry up the seas of Lanka. Cajoled not to do so, he instead fired it into the mythical river Saraswati which flowed here. The river dried up and was replaced by the desert. Identify this place whose remote location led to something which brought it fame in the 1970s.

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44. X is a 1953 film directed by John Ford, featuring Clark Gable and Grace Kelly. They encounter gorillas while on a safari in the film. A party travelling down the Anawhata once discovered that the cry 'X' could be produced with great volume and had very satisfactory resonant qualities. It became a club call, of greeting or when making contact on a tramp, for many years. In India, we know this name better as that of a power-hungry movie villain. What?

45. The phrase (often shortened to AYBABTU) is taken from the opening cutscene of the 1991 European Sega Mega Drive version of the video game Zero Wing by Toaplan, which was poorly translated from Japanese. It was popularized by the Something Awful message forums.

46. Give me one word for:

an extended silence in a piece of music

a lexical gap in a language

a small space containing an osteocyte in bone or chondrocyte in cartilage

a fictional company in the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

47. His name literally means “White Eyebrows”. He is said to have been one of the legendary Five Elders of the Shaolin — survivors of the destruction of the Shaolin Temple by the Qing Dynasty imperial regime (1644–1912. He shares his name with the Southern Chinese martial art attributed to him.

48. This figure, which asserts that, in certain situations, a decrease in tax rates could result in an increase in tax revenues, was reportedly coined by Jude Wanniskia, a writer for The Wall Street Journal, after seeing X arguing against President Gerald Ford's tax increase, by sketching this on a napkin to illustrate the concept. Identify term or X.

49. In his Encyclopædia Britannica article "Languages", he compared the grammar and vocabulary of 400 languages. He also famously wrote the article on Egyptology for the 1818 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Identify this polymath who has made contributions to many other fields as well.

50. The X ideology was the slogan describing U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt’s corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. The term originated from the phrase "Speak softly and carry a X". The idea of negotiating peacefully, simultaneously threatening with the "X", or the military, ties in heavily with the idea of Realpolitik, which implies an amoral pursuit of political power that resembles Machiavellian ideals.

51. It literally means 'good taste' or 'good flavor' in Japanese and is one of the basic tastes recognizable by the human tongue. Also called savoriness it is the taste associated with meat, cheese, mushrooms etc and is due to the detection of the carboxylate ion of glutamic acid. What's the good word?

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52. It is a village in Haryana very close to Delhi. It was called Chuma Kheragaon, but was rechristened when an American president visited the village in 1978, in memory of his mother who had worked here for the US Peace Corps.

53. The _____ effect is a term referring to the apparently mysterious anecdotal failure of technical equipment in the presence of certain people. It is named after an Austrian scientist who was considered such a good theorist that any experiments would self-destruct simply because he was in the vicinity. Fill in the blank.

54. They are fictional creatures found in Gulliver’s Travels. Swift describes them as vile and savage creatures, filthy and with unpleasant habits, obsessed with "pretty stones" they find by digging in mud. Hence the term has come to mean "a crude, brutish or obscenely coarse person".

55. • In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

• That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

• If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.

These paradoxes are the so-called "arguments against motion" described by Aristotle in his Physics. Name the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who devised them.

56. Apart from his better known pursuits, X is also the co-author of "Bang! – The Complete History of the Universe" with Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott. Identify X.

57. Two players have played in every season of the Barclays Premier League since its inception in 1992, one of whom is Ryan Giggs. Name the other.

58. Montana, who goes by the stage name Chippie D, made her debut in "An A-list daughter makes a XXX debut". Identify her 'A-list' father.

59. "Get your Kicks on X", more popularly referred to simply as 'X', was first recorded by Blues singer Bobby Troup and later covered by a number of artists, including The Rolling Stones and Chuck Berry. Troup first conceived the idea while driving from Pennsylvania to LA, and the lyrics celebrate the romance and freedom of the road. Identify X.

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60. The following obituary appeared in the Brownsville Herald in 2007-"Steve Rogers aka X, is dead at 89.He was assassinated by a sniper (and perhaps other shooters) on March 7, 2007 as he entered a Federal Courthouse to face charges for leading a rebellion against the government during the recently concluded Civil War." Identify X.

61. During a party in Weimar in the winter of 1785, X had a late-night conversation on his theory of primary colors with the South American revolutionary Francisco de Miranda. This conversation inspired Miranda to design the yellow, blue and red flag of Gran Colombia, from which the present national flags of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador are derived. Identify X.

62. Many consider Sir William Samuel Stephenson to be the real life inspiration behind X. Indeed Y, the creator of X who served under Sir William at a paramilitary and commando training camp during World War II was once quoted as saying "X is just a romanticized version. The real thing...is William Stephenson." Identify X.

63. “Mother of Cities to me,

For I was born in her gate,

Between the palms and the sea,

Where the world-end steamers wait.”

A British author about an Indian city. Identify both.

64. It is a 2006 memoir by American author Elizabeth Gilbert. It chronicles the author's trip around the world after her divorce. As of August 2010, the book has remained on the New York Times Best Seller list for 187 weeks. Columbia Pictures purchased film rights for the memoir and has produced a film version under the same title, starring Julia Roberts. Identify.

65. Serial Killer Art, as the term denotes, is artwork by serial killers. Collectibles relating such macabre events are known as what?

66. Fill in the blanks (3 words)

The following is an excerpt from a document known as Trotsky's Testament- “Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere.____________. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.”

67. Established in 1720 by Ramanadacharya and currently headed by Mahant Bhaskar Das, this one of the 14 religous denominations recognised by the Akhil Bhartiya Akhara Parishad. Give me the name of this sect which literally translates to group without attachment.

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68. It is a term coined by psychologist James C. Kaufman to refer to the phenomenon that creative writers are more susceptible to mental illness. Kaufman's work demonstrated that female poets were more likely to suffer from mental illness than any other class of writers. This effect is named after an American poet who committed suicide when she was thirty years old, by putting her head in a gas oven, with all the gas taps on full.

69. It is used to describe a contrived or artificial solution, usually to a literary plot. It refers to the practice in Greek drama of lowering, by crane, an actor playing a god or goddess onto the stage to resolve an insuperable conflict in the plot. Identify

70. A common hoax about Methadone is that its trade name, Dolophine was in honor of X. Dolophine comes from the Latin dolor meaning pain, an ending common in many trade and chemical names for analgesics of all types in German, English, French, and other languages. Identify X.

71. Premarin is the commercial name for a compound drug consisting of many conjugated estrogens. What is premarin isolated from? (hint: look closely at the name)

72. On 4th March,1966, The IAF carried out the first(and till date, only) air strikes on its own civilian territory. Where?

73. This word derives from the practice of freebooting clan chieftains who ran protection rackets against Scottish farmers in the 1500's. A prefix to denote the evil of the practice was added to it, to form the word as we know it today. Id the word.

74. In a 1928 article titled X and Parricide, Y argues that the greatest works of world literature all concern parricide. Y claims that X's epilepsy was a function of guilt he bore at having wished for the death of his father, though this has proven to be untrue. Y also attributes a deep neuroticism to X due to his unresolved Oedipal complex, claiming that it prevented him from becoming one of the great liberators of mankind. Ultimately, Y claims that X’s works are diminished by their weak Christian endings. X and Y please.

75. Before moving to Pakistan and becoming the nation's first finance minister, Ghulam Malik Mohammed co-founded a company with the 'X' brothers, and gave it the name 'X & Mohammed'. Post partition, his name was removed from the company title. Identify the company.

76. X is a multi-role air superiority fighter constructed from parts of a salvaged aircraft by Jake Clawson. X uses state of the art radar and fly by wire systems, and also makes use of multi-spectrum navigation including x-ray scanning, electronic surge detection and 3-dimensional radar. Identify X.

77. In Y's journals, published posthumously in 2002, X is simply described as-"herbal abortificient...it doesn't work you hippie". It’s also used as a digestive remedy. Identify X.

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78. X was an 18th century British agriculturist who helped pioneer the British Agriculture Revolution.A history enthusiast, who was a booking agent at a club where the band was performing for the first time, recommended it to the band. The name stuck becaue the club manager liked the show and invited them to return. Identify X.

79. This parodic holiday was created in 1996 by John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap'n Slappy), who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a ______. According to Summers, during a racquetball game between Summers and Baur, one of them reacted to the pain with an outburst of "Aaarrr!", and the idea was born. The holiday is a major observance in the religion of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Identify.

80. When Emperor X asked the scientist Y why he hadn't mentioned God in his discourse on secular variations of the orbits of Saturn and Jupiter, he famously said “No, Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis." to which X is said to have replied “Ah, but that is such a good hypothesis. It explains so many things!" X and Y.

81. “He had a kind of talent I had never encountered before in the Japanese film world. ..The ordinary Japanese actor might need ten feet of film to get across an impression; he needed only three… he said in a single action what took ordinary actors three separate movements to express..” Who about whom?

82. The US Postal Service released a postage stamp featuring him and six of his poems on the centennial of his birth on 19 August 2002. The six poems are "The Turtle," "The Cow," "Crossing The Border," "The Kitten," "The Camel" and "Limerick One." It was the first stamp in the history of the USPS to include the word "sex," although as a synonym for gender. Who?

83. For international versions of the film, the director used different idioms to suit each language: In German it was “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today", in Italian "The morning has gold in its mouth”, French "What you have is worth much more than what you'll have.” What was it in English?

84. She was born to French parents in a small village in Pondicherry in 1983. Her parents had come to India as hippies 38 years ago and settled here becoming devotees of Sri Aurobindo. She studied drama and theatre in Goldsmiths, University of London, where she also worked with a theatre company called Theatre of Relativity for two years. Identify this actress.

85. The X oscillation is a potentially dangerous type of self-excited oscillation caused by combustion instability in liquid fuel rocket engines. This oscillation results in variations of thrust from the engines, generally caused by variations in fuel flow rate, and placing stress on the frame of the vehicle. Its name is a reference to the bouncing of a children’s toy.

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86. It is believed that X and Y weren’t given the Nobel Prize because of their animosity to each other. There is circumstantial evidence that each sought to minimize the other's achievements and right to win the award, that both refused to ever accept the award if the other received it first, and that both rejected any possibility of sharing it Identify.

87. This stock sound effect was first used in the 1951 movie Distant Drums and gets its name from a character in the 1953 western The Charge at Feather River. The effect gained new popularity (its use often becoming an in-joke) after it was used in Star Wars and many other blockbuster films as well as television programs and video games. Identify

88. He was a legend in professional volleyball from Kerala. He was the first Indian volleyball player to become a professional and played club volleyball in Italy. He died in a car accident in Italy on November 30, 1987, at the age of 33. Identify this man whose family also has a famous sportswoman

89. The Express Train model, the Entangled Bank model and the Slow Boat model are three theories used to explain the spread of humans across the Pacific to which subregion of Oceania, which is enclosed by an imaginary triangle with its corners at Hawaii, New Zealand and Easter Island?

90. He claimed that when he was 16, he changed the spelling of his surname by replacing a ‘k’ with a ‘c’ because a teacher told him that he would amount to nothing and be, like his name, a _____. Who?

91. After the publication of this book, X was hounded out of government service, deprived of his pension and blacklisted as a writer in India. Furthermore, he had to give up his job as a political commentator in All India Radio as the Government of India promulgated a law that prohibited employees from publishing memoirs. Give X and book.

92. These two University of Chicago students believed themselves to be Nietzschean supermen who could commit a "perfect crime" which led them to kidnap and murder a 14 year old boy in 1924. Identify this duo, who were the inspiration for Hitchcock’s 1948 movie Rope.

93. It is a black briefcase called among other things President's Emergency Satchel, The Button, The Red Button, The Black Box. Give its most popular nickname, which is supposedly derived from an attack plan codenamed "Dropkick".

94. "Look I'm up to here with cool, I'm so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month, I'm so hip I have trouble seeing over my pelvis. Now will you move before I blow it." Identify speaker.

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95. This famous Carnatic singer was well-known for his uncharacteristically nasal voice In his youth, a famous kanjira performer had commented, "His voice is as melodious as the noise created when a coconut shell is scraped on a rock.” He was instrumental in reviving the compositions of 19th century composer Maharaja Swati Tirunal. In 1947, he became the youngest artiste to receive the Sangeetha Kalanidhi award and he still remains the youngest person ever to get this prestigious recognition. Identify.

96. Camogie is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women; it is almost identical to which game played by men?

97. This animal’s reputation as an insatiable glutton (reflected in the Latin genus name Gulo) may be in part due to a false etymology. The animal's name in Old Swedish meaning "mountain cat," worked its way into a German word, which means roughly "devours much. Purported gluttony is not reflected reflected in English and its English name probably implies “a little wolf”. Identify.

98. He was known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations. Identify this Dutch graphic artist whose first names are Maurits Cornelis.

99. The triangular shape of the mountain Mattehorn is believed to have inspired its creator to give it its shape.What?

100. Its name comes from the Afrikaans/Dutch for "earth pig" or "ground pig" because early settlers from Europe thought it resembled a domestic pig; however it is not closely related to the pig; rather, it is the only living species of an obscure order Tubulidentata.