130.

This is a 2007 science fiction film about a retiring University Professor who claims to be a cro-magnon who has survived for 14,000 years. The entire film is set in the professor's house during his farewell party, with the plot advancing through intellectual arguments between Oldman and his fellow faculty members.

The film was made on a budget of $200,000, and was screened at many film festivals. However something related to the distribution of the film is unique, with the producers actually thanking a particular community/group. What is unique?

Answer(Highlight):
Film producer Eric D. Wilkinson thanked users of BitTorrent, who distributed the movie without express permission, saying that it has lifted the profile of the film beyond the financier's expectations, while encouraging fans to buy DVDs or donate.

129.

This is a picturization of a particular phrase, popularized by Stephen Hawking. Other metaphors describing the circular cause and consequence of the same problem are the "chicken and egg " problem and the Munchausen Trilemma. 

Some space above the topmost turtle has been blanked out. Give funda.

  

128. Tribute to Brazil's Le Corbusier

Who wrote this:

I am not attracted to straight angles or to the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. I am attracted to free-flowing, sensual curves. The curves that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuousness of its rivers, in the waves of the ocean, and on the body of the beloved woman. Curves make up the entire Universe, the curved Universe of Einstein.


Answer(Highlight):
Oscar Niemeyer

127.

This was a rock concert held at ________Speedway in Northern California. The concert was organized by The Rolling Stones, and was anticipated by many to be a "Woodstock West". Artists that played during the event included Santana, Jefferson Airplane and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. The Grateful Dead were also scheduled to perform, but declined to play shortly before their scheduled performance because of the increasing violence at the venue.

An incident which shot the concert to notoriety was the death of 18-year-old Meredith Hunter, who under the alleged influence of drugs "intended to do terrible harm to Mick or somebody in the Rolling Stones." He was intercepted by a member of Hell's Angels, who were incharge of security at the concert, (according to reports in return for $500 worth of beer), and who stabbed Hunter resulting in his death. In all there were three deaths among the audience, and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones and Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane were punched and hurt during the concert. The documentary Gimme Shelter which chronicled the last weeks of The Rolling Stones' 1969 US Tour incorporated extensive footage from this concert. Name the concert.

Answer(Highlight):
Altamont Free Concert

126.

 X is a former Chinese politician. He came to prominence through his tenures as the mayor of Dalian and then Governor of Laoning province. The son of Bo Yibo, one of the Eight Elders of the Communist Party of China, he is widely identified as one of the princelings of Chinese politics. Between 2007 and 2012 he served as a member of the Central Politburo and secretary of the Communist Party's Chongqing branch.
He came to international attention when his top lieutenant and police chief Wang Lijun fled and sought asylum at the American consulate in Chengdu and revealed details of X's alleged involvement in the homicide plot of British citizen Neil Heywood. The incident exposed factionalism and corruption within the Communist Party to international observers, serving as a major embarrasment to the Party before the CPC 18th National Congress. His wife was convicted of the murder, and he was stripped of all party positions, lost his seat at the National People's Congress, and eventually expelled from the party.

Answer(Highlight):

Bo Xilai

125.

This painting is called Nine Jackies, painted after JFK's assassination by one of the most famous modern artist. Name the Artist.

Answer(Highlight):
Andy Warhol

124.

X's book The Cold War brought the phrase to common currency to describe the political situation post World War II. He was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize(1958 and 1962) for his syndicated newspaper column, Today and Tomorrow.
X was an informal adviser to several presidents, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on September 14, 1964 by President Lyndon B, Johnson. He however later had a feud with the President over his handling of the Vietnam War. X's reputation was so high that a Democrat senator from Idaho who voted against Johnson(a Democrat President) reasoned that he agreed with X.
Who is X?

Answer(Highlight):
Walter Lippmann

123.

He is a Ukranian professional boxer and the reigning World Boxing Council heavyweight champion, and is the 12th-longest reigning Heavyweight Champion in the world, having retained his title since 11 October 2008. With a 87.23% knockout percentage rate, he holds the second highest knockout-to-fights ratio, after Rocky Marciano's 87.76%. His power and his possession of a PhD have led to his nickname, Dr. Ironfist. He is currently also leader of a political party and has been elected to the Ukrainian parliament.
His younger brother is the reigning WBA, IBF, WBO, IBO & The Ring Heavyweight Champion.
Name both brothers

Answer(Highlight):
Vitali Klitschko and Wladimir Klitschko

122.

The End of the Affair is a novel by British writer Graham Greene, published in 1951. The novelist whose works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world, loosely based the book on his affair with Lady Catherine Walston, and is set during and just after World War II.
The book recently gained attention in India, because of something many speculate is loosely based on the novel. What?

Answer(Highlight):
Yash Chopra's Jab Tak Hain Jaan is said to have been loosely inspired by The End of the Affair

121.

X was a 1979 seven-part drama spy miniseries for the BBC. It is the television adaption of the 1974 novel of the same name by Y.
Starring Alec Guinness in the lead role, the main credits  feature a matryoshka doll progressively revealing a doll looking more irate than the previous, with the final doll being faceless, an allusion to Winston Churchill's describing Russia as "A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma."
The miniseries was remade into a film in 2011, and earned Z his first Oscar nomination, before which he was widely described as "the best actor not to have been nominated for an Oscar." Give X, Y and Z

Answer(Highlight):
X - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy
Y - John Le Carre
Z - Gary Oldman

120.

This is a global intelligence company founded in 1996 in Austin, Texas by George Friedman. The company has been described as " a private quasi-CIA". The company " fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations." Although it has large multinational corporations as clients, its reputation among intelligence experts is poor: It has been described as "just The Economist a week later and several hundred times more expensive"

The company gained worldwide attention when it was hacked by Anonymous, who claim to have retrieved 200 GB of data. Its email cache was released by Wikileaks on 27 February 2012, and revealed among others, monitoring of protesters of Bhopal Gas Tragedy by Dow Chemicals, and of PETA activists in Canada during 2010 Winter Olympics for Coca-Cola Company.

Name the Company.
Answer(Highlight):
Stratfor

119.

X was a Belgian surrealist artist. He was born in 1898, and is known for his thought-provoking images that challenge observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality.

On 12 March 1912, his mother committed suicide by drowning herself in the River Sambre. According to legend, X was present when her body was retrieved from the water. When she was found, her dress was covering her face, an image that has been suggested as the source of X's paintings during 1927-1928, of people with cloth obscuring their faces. Even his later painting Y(1964) depicts a person whose face is partially obscured from view by an object. Give X and Y.

Answer(Highlight):
X: René Magritte

Y: Son of Man

KQA Mindsweep 2.0 and Mega-Whats 2012

MINDSWEEP 2.0 & MEGA-WHATS 2012

What’s what
MindSweep is KQA’s international open solo quizzing championship while Mega-Whats is our annual national open quizzing championship for teams of four members.

When
From this year on, MindSweep and Mega-Whats will be held on the same day over forenoon and afternoon sessions respectively.

The date: Sunday 9 December 2012

Schedule
MindSweep: 1000hrs-1300hrs
Mega-Whats: 1500hrs-1830hrs

About Mega-Whats 2012
This year’s edition is set by Arun Hiregange and Kiran Vijayakumar and will be held in fourteen cities: Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, Bhubaneshwar, Kolkata, Guwahati, New Delhi, Panaji, Pune, Mysore, Coimbatore, and Thrissur. The winners from each of these cities, and two more from the top ten teams nationally, will battle it out at the Mega-What’s Face-off in ASKQANCE 2013, KQA’s 30th Anniversary Quiz Fest.

About MindSweep 2.0
MindSweep, our international solo championship, is intended as a vehicle for the things that are distinctive about the quizzing that happens in some (if not all) Indian cities.

The setters (Navin Rajaram, Dibyendu Das, Kiran Vijayakumar and Arul Mani) have enjoyed taking (and bulbing at) the World Quizzing Championships, perhaps because Indian quizzing is a wee bit different from its international cousin. MindSweep is our attempt at sharing the things we enjoy about quizzing with an international audience.

So, what the devil is distinctive about Indian quizzing? A privileging of good guesswork over memory; the triumph of generalists over specialists; bombing a syllabus, rather than using one; the pleasure of parsing, or unknotting, or sometimes being pythoned by a carefully coiled question; a festive relationship with the English language; and the strange appetite for knowing joy and defeat in one instant–a mystical state known as AJM, or Goddamn-it-I-was-that-close.

After the first edition of MindSweep in Jan 2012, several embittered souls sent in their punning suggestions (not all of them were polite) for what we should actually have called the quiz. We laughed, and carried on. The first edition of a quiz, like a first kiss, must elicit some reaction, some ‘hubbub, babel, shindy, hullabaloo, stramash, charivari, and total contempt of repose,’ or what’s a contemptibly long zindagi for?

In MindSweep 2.0, the taker will meet ten sets of questions (200 in all) over two one-hour sessions–this means two installments of five sets of questions, interrupted by a short 30-minute break for answers, corrections, and worship of the bladder.

MindSweep 2.0: The Topics

1. The Arts: Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Design, Architecture, Installation Art, Dance, Theatre
2. Science and Tech: Concepts in the Sciences, History and Philosophy of Science, History of Technology, The Environment, Astronomy, Medicine, Inter-disciplinary work, Popular Science Writing
3. Literature: Poetry, Literary Fiction, Non-Fiction, Drama, Genre Fiction, Graphic Novels, Critics, Literary History, Translation
4. Social Sciences: History, Anthropology, Cultural Studies/Social History, History of Ideas, Economics,The Philosophers
5. Business: Brands, Fashion, Business History, Advertising
6. Sports and Leisure: Sporting History, Games, Television, Gaming, Sports-Writing, Sports-Coverage, Hobbies–Collecting, Gardening, Fan-communities, The Internet
7. Cinema: Hollywood, National Cinemas, World Cinema, Film Genres, Film-Technology, Film-language, Cinema & Society, Film-writing
8. Music: Instruments, Performers, Genre Music, World Music, Tech Innovations, Music-magazines, Music industry, Music-journalism
9. Food & Drink: From all over the world
10. Travel: Places, Peoples, Languages, Landmarks, Journeys, Voyages, Means of Transport

If you would (after all this) like MindSweep to be held in your city/country, please mail kqaquizzes@gmail.com, and cc:arul.mani@gmail.com

from
http://kqaquizzes.org/mindsweep-2-0-mega-whats-2012/

118.

At a point when X was killing numbers of Pandava troops, Krishna advised Yudhishthira to adopt a plan to kill X. Krishna advised that it be proclaimed that Y was killed in battle, at which out of grief, it was expected that X would lay down his arm.
Yudhishthira, being a proponent of truth, hesitated at this, at which his brother Bhima killed an elephant in the Kuru army named Y, and proclaimed "Y is dead, Y is dead".
The proclamation had its effect, and X lay down his weapons, at which Z, born to King Drupada, beheaded him.
Give X, Y and Z.

Answer(Highlight):
X - Dronacharya
Y - Ashwatthama
Z - Dhrishtadyumna

117.

Bugsy Siegel was an American gangster associated with the Genovese Crime Family. Siegel with associates Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello formed Murder, Inc.; credited with carrying out many contract killings across US.
His desire to be a legitimate businessman led him to gain ownership over the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. He spent extravagantly on his new 93-room Hotel, thereby incurring the displeasure of mob bosses.
On June 20, 1947, Siegel was shot in the head, twice. Although there is a general misconception that he was shot through the eye, in fact his left eye was blown out of its socket by the overpressure created by the bullet's striking and passing through Siegel's skull.
The misconception was propagated by the murder of a film character based on Siegel, in a Gangster Classic. Name the Character and the film.

Answer(Highlight):
Moe Greene, The Godfather

116.

Born in 1959, this poet has published four poetry collections. Gemini(1992), Apocalypso(1997), English(2004) and These Errors are Correct(2008). He shot into literary fame in 2012 for his first novel, set in the Bombay of the 70s and 80s.
In 2006 he told The Hindu that he had been an alcoholic and an addict for almost two decades:
"I spent most of that time sitting in bars, getting very drunk, talking about writers and writing. And never writing. It was a colossal waste. I feel very fortunate that I got a second chance."
Who am I talking about?

Answer(Highlight):
Jeet Thayil

115.

Chalmun's Cantina is a fictional bar located in this pirate city. It is popular among freight pilots and many dangerous characters of various races and contains booths, a bar counter, and some free-standing tables, and sometimes a band of musicians named Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes.

The establishment is extremely rough in nature; but the clientele and the management give incidents of deadly violence no more than a moment's attention.

Simple enough, name the pirate city

Answer(Highlight):
Mos Eisley

Vespertilio - Non-Comp

The Vespertilio Non Competitive event was held on the 11th October 2012 within the hallowed portals of our beloved SAC-CR. The most amazing thing about the event was that nobody had any idea why the event was named as BAT. Anyways, the event got underway at time (QC continues to stick to its timely starts this year). The rep team which had been working very hard for the past couple of days for Rendezvous and Krypton finally found itself in familiar territories where it had to solve questions rather than make new ones. The event was well attended by the Freshers of all hostels. The veteran third year junta being represented by only one team. At the end of the prelims, Jyotesh was seen running around the Room searching for people who could solve more than one of his questions. Eventually, 11 teams ended up meeting the cutoff score of 7 points as many as four of them comprising entirely of Freshers. Among the qualifiers, there was a team of four while another was a team of two. Just before the finals started, Akhil was going around the room looking for a potential third person that could join his team but was heavily disappointed. Jyotesh was the first Quizmaster in the Finals and rushed through his round in a jiffy. He had a train to catch so that he may go to Antaragni and win the FLAME Quiz (Congrats for that!!!). His round was extremely low-scoring however contained some very good questions and a tribute to the IIT Delhi Quizzing Great – Contri. Next came Hrishikesh with his questions providing much avenue for scoring well to all teams. By the end of his round, the Third year team of Gowtham, Nishant, Milan and Arpit had built up a huge lead on the others. Some fresher teams got so frustrated that they decided to leave the Quiz midway. Next up was Ashutosh. His entertainment based questions had Shiva jumping for joy at every question. With just four teams left by the end of his round, it was thought best to abandon Anshuman’s round and give him a chance to present his questions in the next Non-Competitive event. In the end, a highly flustered rep team was seen disappearing in the VIP room trying to get Krypton – the Treasure Hunt of Rendezvous 2012 up and running by the end of the day.

Kutub Quiz by Aryapriya Ganguly

Aryapriya Ganguly will be conducting the next session of Kutub Quizzers at IIT Delhi SAC-CR on Sunday, 14 October 2012, from 2:00 PM onwards. The quiz will be a rerun of his FLAME Quiz at IIT Kanpur as part of their Antaragni festival, which was well received by our contingent at IITK - Nishant, Tannishka, Yati and Jyotesh.

See you there then.

Also Congrats to Nishant, Tannishka and Yati for finishing third in General Quiz and third in Sports Quiz at Antaragni.

Quizonomics 2012 Prelims

Economics Club IITD, in association with Ecovision, SSCBS presents Quizonomics - An Economics based Quiz.

Prelims to Quizonomics would be held on 16th of October at 3LT2, IITD. Top 2 team at IITD prelims would get direct entry to the finals at SSCBS campus on 23rd.

Cash prizes worth Rs. 10000 and goodies like Fastrack sunglasses and watches to be won!

Rendezvous 2012 presents an exciting challenge for enthusiastic quizzers. We have come up with a new format, where we will give you 2 distinct elements in different genres/areas and you have to connect them using  atleast 2 links. You will be awarded points for the number of links you use(more the merrier) and their prominence.  A points tally will be generated for all individuals based on the above mentioned criteria and the winners will get exciting prizes. The event closes on 19^th October.

Send us all entries by mail at quizzingclubiitd@gmail.com with the subject as the two objects.

Here is an example for you:

You have to connect Amjad Khan(from Sholay) with Lee Van Cleef(the bad in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly), through their co workers. These co-workers should have played with them in very popular movies.

Answer: Amjad Khan acted in Sholay withAmitabha Bachchan who is co-starring in The Great Gatsby withLeonardo Di Caprio acted in J Edgar which was directed byClint Eastwood who co-starred in The good the bad and the ugly with Lee Van Cleef.

 There may be different routes between the two actors.

And now, to kick start the process, here are your two objects for the day. 

A- Babe Ruth

B-Twitter 

Connect A to B via atleast 2 links!
All the best!!!

114.

X is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in Number Theory. X discovered ______ when he found a book about it at 10 years of age. He was puzzled by the fact that the statement was so simple that he, a ten-year old could understand it. He started working on the statement since 1986, in relative secrecy, and came out with a final solution in 1993. It turned out, however, that this solution had a fundamental gap, to circumvent which took X another year. He announced the final solution in 1995, and the solution has withstood the scrutiny of mathematicians for over 17 years now. Simon Singh wrote a book, titled _____, which chronicled attempts to find solutions to _____ since the time it was first stated. Give X and the blank.

113. Greed, for lack of a better word, is good

X is an American business magnate and head of the high-yield bond department of Drexel Burnham Lambert, till his indictment in 1989 on 98 counts of racketeering and securities fraud, and was convicted on 6 counts of securities violations. At Drexel, his compensation exceeded $ 1 billion over a four year period, and as of 2010 he had a net worth of $ 2 billion, making him the 488th richest man in the world. Drexel went bankrupt in 1990.

Critics cite X as the epitome of wall street greed in the 1980s, and nicknamed him Junk Bond King. The character of Gordon Gekko is acknowledged to be partly inspired by X.

112. Tales of the Macabre

This is a silent, color motion picture sequence shot by private citizen Abraham X with a home-movie camera, capturing one of the most famous events of the 20th century.

X film frame number 313 is probably the most famous, and the most studied frame in the film. This frame, and the frames before and after this, were studied by scientists, including Richard Feynman, who concluded that Y's head moved forward at first. After frame 314, it is clear that Y falls back, resulting in much speculation, including that the X Film is a hoax.

The X film was purchased by the government in 1999 for $ 16 million.
Give X and the event that the film captured.

111. Draper goes to Zion

Finally minors over, and Rendezvous approaching! To kickstart the blog post-minors, here is a question for today:

Wolf Ollins is a brand consultancy based in London, New York City and Dubai. Since the 1990s the company has focused more on corporate branding, and their work includes Tata Group, GE and Unilever.

Their work has occasionally been controversial, which includes the _________, which they designed. The design was met with negative reception, with 80% of the votes in a BBC poll in 2007 giving it the lowest rating. There have also been criticisms of perceived hidden messages in the design.


 What did Wolf Ollins design, and explain the title.



Question “inspired from” Rendezvous 2011 Zoom-In, by Munir Contractor and Shriram Appan.

110.

The _______ Massacre happened at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England, on 16 August 1819, when the cavalry charged into a crowd of 60,000 - 80,000 people demanding reform of parliamentary representation. The meeting happened during a time when the economy was poor following the Napoleonic wars. Also limited suffrage in Northern England and the harsh corn laws encouraged political radicalism. At a demonstration by the Manchester Patriotic Union, local magistrates charged military authorities to arrest the leaders and disperse the crowd, causing the cavalry to charge into the crowd and killing 15-20 people and injuring 400+ people in the ensuing confusion.

The massacre was given the name ______ in ironic comparison to a glorious event in British military history which happened only 4 years earlier.

Both Blanks are same. Very workoutable.



Ans(Highlight): Peterloo Massacre

109.

This is a 1968 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. The novel is set in a post-apolyptic Earth, suffering from radiation fallout from World War Terminus. The main plot features a bounty hunter with the task of tracking down renegade Xs who have assumed human identity. As the radiation poisoning has wiped out the majority of animals, owning an animal is now considered a status symbol, and people, including the protagonist, unable to afford real animals keep up pretenses by owning electric animals. The novel explores what it is to be a human, as the bounty hunter protagonist explores the existence of defining qualities that separate humans from Xs.

The word X, part of the title of the novel, translates into Greek as "having the likeness of a man", and was shortened and used extensively by George Lucas in Star Wars.

The novel was adapted to the 1982 film Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and Scott Young.





Ans: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Good lord, you're right. It's Kandinsky. Wassily Kandinsky, and who's this herewith him? It's Braque. Georges Braque, the Cubist, painting a bird in flight over a cornfield and goingvery fast down the hill towards Kingston and ...

(cyclists pass in front of him)

Piet Mondrian - just behind, Piet Mondrian the Neo-Plasticist, and then a gap, then the main bunch, here they come,Chagall, Max Ernst, Miro, Dufy, Ben Nicholson, Jackson Pollock and Bernard Buffet making a break on the outside here, Brancusi's going with him, so is Gericault, Fernand Leger, Delaunay, DeKooning, Kokoschka's dropping back here by the look of it, and so's Paul KIee dropping back a bitand, right at the back of this group, our very own Kurt Schwitters.

 Who  fell off his bicycle  just outside Ewhurst, trying to get a short cut through to Dorking via Peaslake and Gomshall, and who is painting  his first painting in motion?

Ans: Pablo Picasso (whither Canada sketch of Monty Python)

India Quiz

India Quiz took place on tuesday, September 18. The quizmasters were Gagandeep Bhatia, Mayank Gupta and Arnab Dutta. There were prelims for the quiz, from which three teams from Kumaon, Jwala and Zanskar qualified. A total of 15 teams managed to stuff themselves in SAC Committee Room. The first quizmaster of the day was Gagandeep, and his questions were overall well-received. Mayank and Arnab, both from Shivalik House, conducted their quiz together. There was a slight problem during the quiz - Mayank and Arnab's marking scheme was +10 per question, while points in Gagandeep's round were +2 per questions. It was decided that to restore parity between the rounds, the points from Mayank-Arnab's would be divided by 5. Mayank and Arnab introduced a new concept - cards. There were two "Wicked Wango" cards - "Second Chance"  to give an opportunity to give a correct answer when the team had already given one incorrect answer to the same question, and the other "Rocket Science" where a team can opt to score more points for a question while at the risk of getting negatives for incorrect answers. Each card could be used only once. These concepts were appreciated by the Quizzing teams. The questions were good, but were not suitable for an infinite bounce format quiz, as they tended to be on the easier side. Also the round reversal gave an advantage to some teams, and changes are being introduced to reduce the arbitrariness that results from round reversal. The quality of some questions was very much appreciated - for instance there was a question connecting Pushkar and cattle fair to Sunanda Pushkar - the cattle fair bit connecting to Shashi Tharoor's cattle class remark!
At the last question of the quiz, Shivalik were 1.8 points behind the leaders Kumaon. If they got the question, they would have finished first, and failure to answer would have meant they were out of the top 3. After getting an incorrect answer amidst general suspense in CR, they opted for Second Chance card, at which they also got an incorrect answer, much to the relief of the leading teams Kumaon and Satpura. Team Nilgiri got the correct answer, bringing them up to tied third.
The event results were:
1st - Kumaon - 25 points
2nd - Satpura - 18 points
Tied 3rd - Nilgiri and Jwala - 6 points each

Elementary - QC Non-comp

The second non-comp of the season, Elementary was held on Wednesday, 12th September 2012 in SAC CR. The quizmasters for the event were Aditya Grover, Shivani Sen and Nikhil Mahajan. The prelims started at 8 and saw enthusiastic participation from a lot of teams, especially the freshers who turned out in large numbers. The prelims, with 25 questions(many having multiple parts), was a well balanced set of questions from different themes and turned out to be high scoring affair with a cutoff of 13/35. Eight teams made it to the finals, with an overenthusiastic Nikhil Mahajan lobbying for a ninth team to accomodate his Jwala freshers! 

It was heartening to see a freshers team also making it through. The finals comprised of around 45 questions, split into three rounds, one by each QM. Each round was highly appreciated by the finalists and audience and for any ambiguity, there was one simple rule, Quizmaster is God(ess). The event started and ended on time, in tune with the new QC policy of punctuality. The winning team were QC Veterans Gowtham, Arpit and Shivalik fresher, runners up being Team Nilgiri. The main entertainer of the Quiz award went to Tannishka Singh for jumping up every time an answer he knew was answered before him.

The next event would be India Quiz, to be conducted by Gagandeep Bhatia, Arnab Dutta and Mayank Gupta, on the 18th of August.

That is a tasty burger!

Simple Enough. Id the movie.

This book 'X', authored by 'Y' was initially rejected by several publishing houses before finally coming out in September 2001. The book won several accolades across the globe. 'Y' has said that the novel gave him a direction and purpose in life. The movie adaptation(by the same name as that of the book) is being directed 'Z', who is an academy award winning director. The movie has an Indian boy playing the lead role (who has no background in acting or theater before) and features other prominent bollywood actors as well.Id 'X','Y' and 'Z'

Ans(Highlight): X- 'Life of Pi', Y- Yann Martel, Z- Ang Lee

105.

This is an Italian neo-realist film, co-written and directed by Federico Fellini. The film portrays the journey of the two main characters, the brutish strong man Zampano (played by Anthony Quinn) and a naive young woman Gelsomina (played by Giulietta Massina) whom he buys from her mother and takes to see the world as part of his travelling show. The film won the inaugural academy award for best foreign film in 1956. Bob Dylan has cited the influence of the film on his song Mr. Tambourine Man.

Kutub Quiz on August 5, Sunday

The next Kutub Quiz will be done by Sresth Shah. The venue is II-LT-2, and the quiz will start at 1PM.

104.

X is a former Dutch footballer and is currently the manager of the Catalan national team. He won the Ballon d'Or three times, in 1971, 1973 and 1974, which is a record jointly held with Michael Platini, Marco van Basten and Lionel Messi. He was the most famous proponent of the concept of Total Football, in which any outfield player can take over the role of any other player in a team. After retirement X became highly successful as manager of AFC Ajax and FC Barcelona.




Answer: Johan Cruyff

This former Belgian professional cyclist(born in 1945) is considered by many to be the greatest and most successful professional cyclist ever. He won the Tour de France five times, won all the monuments of cycling at least twice, and won the Giro d'Italia five times and Vuelta a España once, won the World Championship once as an amateur and three times as a professional, and broke the world hour record.

Answer(Highlight): Eddy Merckx

This lake is an endorheic lake in the Himalayas situated at a height of 4,350 m. Its circumference is 134 km, and its maximum width is 5km. The lake passes through the India-China border and requires an inner line Permit for travel from Leh, which is a five-hour drive. The lake entered into popular culture when it was the site for the final scene in the Bollywood blockbuster Three Idiots. Name the lake.

I will Never Publish Troll Comments on Blogger

X(born 1957) is an American film and television actress, comedian and voice artist.  She is best known for her role of Y in the long running series Z. X also voices other characters in the series. She has gone on to voice a variety of animated characters, including Chuckie Finster in Rugrats and All Grown Up!, Rufus in Kim Possible, Mindy in Animaniacs, Margo Sherman in The Critic and Chip in the Kellys. In 2000 she published her autobiography "My Life as a 10-year Old Boy", and 4-years later adapted it into a one-woman play. Give X and Y.

It was known as CTR (Computing Tabulating Recording) when it was founded. It adopted its new identity in the year 1924 and shortened its name in 1946 and is ubiquitous today. Which brand?

X was the name of a Muisca tribal chief who covered himself with gold dust and, as an initiation rite, dove into a highland lake. Later it became the name of a legendary "Lost City of Gold", which fascinated explorers since the days of the Spanish Conquistadors. No evidence for its existence has been found.

Imagined as a place, the X became a kingdom, an empire, and the city of this legendary golden king.
Give me X.

Answer will be published in 24 hours.

Cuban Milssile Crisis: It was precipitated when US leaders learnt that Soviet missiles with nuclear warheads capable of reaching the USA were being secretly installed in Cuba.There seemed a real danger of nuclear war as the rival forces were placed on full alert.
An outcome of the crisis was establishment of something that had never been witnessed in diplomatic circles before. What?


Answer will be published in 24 hours.

Dying of the Light (1977)
Windhaven (1981, with Lisa Tuttle)
Fevre Dream (1982)
The Armageddon Rag (1983)
Hunter's Run (2007)

Who's incomplete bibliography? The most obvious one has been omitted.

Answer (Highlight):
George R R Martin 

This film, currently in production, by John Jopson and set in the 19th century, is named after the common title to paintings given by impressionists and post-impressionist artists such as Pablo Picasso, Edgard Degas, Edouard Manet and Jean-Francois Raffaeli.

 _____ has been portrayed as a dangerously addictive psychoactive drug, and its mystery and mind-altering effects have fascinated people. The drink was popular among painters and writers living in late 19th and early 20th century France, thus explaining its popularity as a subject. Give the film/paintings(the word in blank forms part of the title).

by Edouard Degas

Answer(Highlight):
The Absinthe Drinkers

1.       X holds the record for the highest number of individual Oscars awarded. In his lifetime he received 20 Oscars, but he was posthumously awarded a further 6, making a total of 26. Of all the statuettes awarded him, the most famous "set" were an Oscar and seven miniature statuettes in 1938 for the film Y. X is one of the biggest legends in his field, and quite frankly, I knew about him long before I even heard of Marlon Brando, Hitchcock or even Spielberg. His legacy stands the largest media conglomerate today. Y is a classic and one of the most parodied children stories along with Hansel and Gratel. X and Y please?

X was born in 1910. Before his birth, the family had 3 sons. All 3 of them died in their infancy.
Hence, he was raised as a girl.  He was also made to wear a nose ring.It later earned him a nickname
Y , which is the name by which we know him. After the birth of his younger brother, he was treated
as a boy. He was a school dropout and was an member of the Hindu Mahasabha, and RSS. X was
sentenced to death in 1949 for assassinating a very famous political leader. Id X/Y .. 

Annoying, isn't it?

This show is centered around X. X lives in a kitchen with a few of his friends, like Pear,Midget Apple among others. X is voiced by the creator of the show. In most of the epsiodes, X is heckling other characters till they meet their end,  usually by a blender or a knife. X has several mannerisms. He often begins an episode by repeatedly yelling ,"Hey", followed by the name of the character till the other character responds.  If he does not like an object, he will often say, "You're an apple!", even if the object is not (e.g. a tomato).He uses various tactics, such as telling rude and offensive jokes, burping, and making childish noises with his tongue, to get attention. He also has a loud, braying laugh.
The show and X..


Answer:(Highlight)
The Annoying Orange, and X is Orange

- In Dutch, X is a word which means "fun"
- In Welsh, X means "nonsense" – e.g., if a person wanted to say "utter nonsense" in Welsh, they would say "rwtsh X".
- Perhaps the most used and therefore the most mispronounced word in the Internet vernacular, X is pronounced as “Unnnhhh-ninininini” with the “Unnnhhh” real low and guttural and the “ninininini” like a high trill — as begrudgingly and maliciously ratified in a 1989 Usenet thread by users who had long since rejected spoken language.
What word am I talking about?

not a tall order to overcome the blues?..

Besides its most successful years in the 1950s and 1960s (German Championship in 1954, 1955 and German Cup in 1968), the club enjoyed remarkable popularity in 1956 when it even drew 40,000 fans to an open-air test game against Lancia Bozen, once a top basketball club from Italy. Later, in 1966, the club was a founding member of the top division.
In the following years the club slowly but surely faded into obscurity and in 1974 was even relegated to the 2nd Division. Since then, the club never completely recovered and only had a few successful years (X moved up to the First Division in 1987 and stayed there until 1989). Since 2008 the declared goal of the team is to return to the club’s former glory and return to the top division
The club please...
-Hrishikesh

2 phases ,12 to fit , 3 or 5?

This book serves as "the standard repository for all knowledge and wisdom" for many 

members of the civilization.This is published by Megadodo Publications, a publishing company 

on Ursa Minor Beta. what?

-(Hrishikesh)

The real bliss and ....

X is a fictional character in a series of children's books by author Astrid Lindgren, 

and adapted into multiple films and television series. X was named by Lindgren's 

then nine-year-old daughter, Karin, who requested a get-well story from her 

mother one day when she was home sick from school. The author Y based the 

character of Z on what he imagined X might have been as an adult. Title is a 

reference to YX,Y and Z?

    - Hrishikesh

Sitter..

What title did the Mughal Emperor Aurangazeb bestow on the rulers of Jaipur,
feeling that they were 25 percent more brave and handsome than the rest of the
world?

Answer(Highlight):
Sawai

From the records available in the Basel Mission at Balmatta, Mangalore, it can be ascertained that in 1851, a weaver, John Haller was sent out to exploit the opportunities that beckoned. After 19 months, he already had 20 looms where 27 workers were employed. By 1856, their skills had progressed and they won the second prize at an industrial fair in Madras. Haller experimented with the sap of a bark of a semecarpus tree and invented a colour. He named this invention a Kannada word.
The invention please?

Answer(Highlight):
Khakhi

Measurements?

The X Scale is a measurement scale for Y of Z. The maximum rating of a substance on the X scale may be 16,000,000 units (given to pure W). In the traditional method for determining Y, an alcohol extract of the W oil from a measured amount of Z is added incrementally to a solution of sugar in water until the Y is just detectable by a panel of (usually five) tasters; the degree of dilution gives its measure on the X scale. Modern methods however use sophisticated high-performance liquid chromatography to determine the W content by quantitative analysis. X, Y, Z, W?

Connect:
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6.

X is an autobiographical novel by Y, written in 1929, when Y was 34. "It was my bitter leave-taking of England, where I had recently broken a good-many conventions", he wrote in the prologue to the revised second edition. The title points to the passing of the old order following the cataclysm of the First World War. The rise of atheism, socialism, feminism and pacifism, besides the emergence of new forms of literary expression, as they had to bear on Y's life, are explored in the work. A large part of the book is taken up by his experience of the First World War, and provides a detailed description of trench warfare.

Y later went on to contribute significantly in the study and interpretation of Greek Mythology, and his historical novel, written in the form of the autobiography of a Roman king, later went on to become a bestseller.

Give both X and Y.

Answer(Highlight):

X: Goodbye to all that

Y: Robert Graves

This word was popularised by Sigmund Freud. He described it as an energy with which mental process and structures are invested. The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung described it as 'The energy that manifests itself in the life process and is perceived subjectively as striving and desire.' The factors affecting it are stated as:
Relational issues , Psychological factors, Physical factors, Lifestyle, Medications ,Testosterone and menstrual cycle.
It is the name of an afro-asiatic language spoken in Ethiopia. It is aslo the name of peruvian band. Which word?

Movies

This film has its (so-called) prequel as well as its sequel in the same movie. One lasting 9 mins, another less than a min. Three playback singers make cameo appearances in the film . Mahima Choudhary makes a cameo as well. It ends with note of thanks to Ram Gopal Verma, Ramesh Sippy, Mahesh Manjrekar, Takeshi Kitano, Quentin Tarantino, the Coen Brothers and the dancers and stuntmen in the film, and to “all those who provided their moral and immoral support."Which movie am I talking about?

Bollywood ...

X was known in the industry for the "No money, no work" principle. Once, when X was shooting with M.V. Raman for a film, the director, Raman, owed X Rs.5000.  X , however agreed to do the scene (going against the policy).  But, when the shooting started, X walked across the floor and, each time X walked a few places, X said, Paanch Hazzar Rupaiya (five thousand rupees) and did a somersault. After X reached the end of the floor, X went out of the studio, jumped into the car and ran away. 
On another occasion, when X had received only half the payment, X turned up with make up on only one side of the face...
X won 8 Filmfare awards in a particular category, which is infact a record in itself.
Id X ..

Audi...

Every company logo has a vast historical background to it. The four rings of Audi are no different. What do these four rings symbolize?

Answer: (Highlight to see) The four rings represent the four marques of Auto Union. The Audi emblem symbolises the amalgamation of Audi with DKW, Horch and Wanderer: the first ring from the left represents Audi, the second represents DKW, third is Horch, and the fourth and last ring Wanderer.

In the 1985 Academy Awards, Maurice Jarr won the Academy Award for Best Musical Score, for his scoring of A Passage to India. In his acceptance speech he commented "I was lucky X was not eligible this year". Which movie, based on X's life, won the Best Picture award?

Legends.

Id Both

Answer(Highlight):

Akira Kurosawa and Francis Ford Coppola

76. And We Begin

According to X’s creator, it’s name has no particular significance and is simply a four-letter word without a phonetic pronunciation, something he describes as "a treasured and carefully guarded point in the space of four-character strings."
X was launched in September 2005
Id X

Answer(Highlight):
xkcd

75.

Y on being accused by X of stealing their technology replied "It is more like we had this rich neighbor named Z and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it". In the context of recent deaths in the tech world, give X, Y and Z. Also Id the technology.