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The CommanderGeneral

QuizPresented by

Varun B Rao

Anand M S

The Department of Telecommunications

PRESENT

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Heartfelt Thanks to

Prof. K R Savithri for ensuring that today happened

Prof. S V Sathish for his invaluable support and

guidance to the Quotient Quiz Club

The Department of Telecommunications

All the participants

The World Wide Web for its vast reserve of information

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BRIEF OVERVIEW

4 Rounds inclusive of 1 LVC

Scoring pattern shall be elucidated at the start ofeach round

The collective IQ of the audience is ALWAYSgreater than the collective IQ of the participants.We need no proof.

The Quizmasters decision is final, binding, andwill not change even in the face of clinchingevidence to the contrary

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ROUND 1 : FRIENDLY FIRE

6 Questions : Clockwise

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+10/-10 on Fairplay

+10/0 on a Direct/Pass

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1. What famous, unsuccessful incident does the following picture

depict?

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Operation Valkyrie

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2. Which European football club

was founded as a cricket club in1899 by British expatriates Alfred

Edwards and Herbert Kilpin from

Nottingham, and in honor of itsorigins, retained the English

spelling of its city's name, instead

of changing it to the local spelling?

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A C Milan

That is why they call themselves A C Milan and not A C Milano

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3. In 1982, toothpaste salesman DietrichMateschitz was surprised that certain Mr Taisho

was in the top 10 list of tax payers in Japan andthat he owned Krating Daeng (water buffalo).This product had listed taurine as one of itsingredients, which was effective for jet lag.

Mr M, inspired by this idea created his empirebased on Krating Daeng. He said, I was mostfascinated by Zeus the king of Gods - the way

he came to see Europa and got transformed. Bywhat name is Krating Daeng known to us?

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Red Bull gives you Wiiings!

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4.

S forStupendous!

T forTiger, ferocity of!

U forUnderwear, red!

P for Power, incredible!

E forExc

ellentphysique!

N for umm something... hmmm, well, I'llcome back to that

D forDetermination!

U for... wait, how do you spell this? Is it "I"??

Monologue of the alter ego of which fictionalcharacter?

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5. Connect (non-exhaustive)

Mr. Wilson from Home Improvement

Charles Townsend in Charlies Angels

Kenny McCormick from South Park

Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget

Mammy Two Shoes in Tom and Jerry

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Unseen faces on TV

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6. A Frank Zappa and The Mothers of

Invention concert was held in the casino'stheatre. In the middle of Don Preston's

synthesizer solo on "King Kong", the place

suddenly caught fire when somebody in

the audience fired a flare gun into therattan covered ceiling, as mentioned in the

"some stupid with a flare gun" line. The

resulting fire destroyed the entire casinocomplex, along with all the Mothers'

equipment. What in the lords name,

resulted from this?

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END OF ROUND 1

Score time!

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ROUND 2 : ARTILLERY

6 Questions : Counter - Clockwise

Fairplay enabled

+10/-10 on Fairplay

+10/0 on a Direct/Pass

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1. The original of this was developed

after a worker at Rowntree's factory inYork put a suggestion in the suggestion

box for a snack that a 'man could have

in his lunch box for work'.

It was launched in September 1935 in

the UK as Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp.

It was later renamed in 1937 to a brand

that we are all familiar with.

What?

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2. It lasts 200 days for an averagefamily of five, uses a combination of

paddy husk ash and tiny silverparticles.

The company can afford to producethis on the cheap because Indiaproduces 20 million ton of paddy huskash each year as a byproduct of rice

milling.

What are we talking about?

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3.

James Bond = Agent 007

Enemy : GoldFinger

Boss : Q

__________ = Agent 000

Enemy : Yellow Pinkie

Boss : Double Q

Fill in the blank.

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Pretty nostalgic one Cartoon Network

is just not the same nowadays, is it?

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4. FIA President Max Mosley instead

attended the funeral of X which took placeon May 7, 1994 in Salzburg, Austria.

Mosley said in a press conference ten

years later, "I went to his funeral becauseeveryone went to Y's. I thought it was

important that somebody went to his.

ID X and Y.

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X Roland Ratzenberger Y Ayrton Senna

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5. _____ _____ has the looks of James Dean and

Fonzie (from Happy Days) and the voice of Elvis

Presley and resides in Aron City.

The director says that the name _____ _____ was

inspired from the episode of the Brady Bunch wherein

Greg Brady wants to be a rock star.

Many Celebrity guests on the show include Mick Jagger,

Weird Al Yankovic, Farah Fawcett, Capt. America,

Velma Dinkley etc.

Simply. Fill in the blank.

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6. In medieval England, there was a practice of

allowing peasants to take any deadwood from

the royal forest that they could reach with ashepherd's crook or a reaper's billhook.

What is the significance of this in the modern

English language?

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The origin of the expression By hook or crook

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END OF ROUND 2

Score time!

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VENI VIDI VICI THE LVC

ROUND 3

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GUIDELINES

12 slides in 4 slabs of3

All visuals are related by a theme

Slab 1 : +40/-20 Slab 2 : +30/-15

Slab 3 : +20/-10

Slab 4 : +10/0 Teams can answeronce per slab

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SLAB 1

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END OF SLAB 1

+40/-20

Who dares wins!

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SLAB 2

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END OF SLAB 2

+30/-15

Any brain-waves? An epiphany perhaps?

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SLAB 3

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END OF SLAB 3

+20/-10

Come on now! Think.. Think

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SLAB 4

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END OF SLAB 4 +10/0

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ANSWER SLIDES

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LIC (Jeevan Bhima Policy) Jeevan Bhima Nagar

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Soundarya s character - Ganga Ganganagar

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Jayprakash Narayan JP nagar

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C. Rajagopalachari Rajajinagar

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V.V. Giri Girinagar

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Kamal Nehru Kamalanagar

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