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Part 1

25 QuestionsQuestions 5 15 and 25 are star questions which

will be considered in case of a tie

1.In 2011, in a UN security council meeting, when Mr X read out from the text meant for his Portuguese

counterpart for around three minutes, when Hardeep Singh Puri, India's envoy to the UN, realised the gaffe, stopped MR X and gave him the right papers. Identify Mr X who actually started his political career in Praja

socialist party.

Hardeep Singh PuriLuis Amado

2.The planet has 27 known moons, of which 25 are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and the rest from works

of Alexander Pope. Identify the planet.

3.Lewis Pugh an ocean advocate, a maritime lawyer and a swimmer has a habit of swimming in world’s vulnerable aquatic bodies to highlight

the importance of protecting them only in a costume consisting of ‘swimming - underwear’, a goggle and a swim-cap, all of a particular brand. Recently his efforts have led to 24 nations signing a landmark

agreement to protect a vast area of Antarctica. Media has dubbed his style of activism as __________ __________ .

4.After completing his Masters in International Business at Brunel University London, Ashutosh returned to Ahmedabad to start his own e-

commerce venture Aajkiitem, a platform for lifestyle products and ‑consumer electronics. Priyank completed his MBA from IBS-Ahmedabad

and joined Ashutosh in starting this company in 2015. Name the company whose advertisements features Actor Sunil Shetty.

Ashutosh

Priyank

Sunil Shetty

5.David Scott met artist Paul Van Hoeydonck at a dinner party and requested him to make a small statuette which should be lightweight but sturdy, capable of withstanding the temperature extremes, could not be identifiably male or female, nor of any identifiable ethnic group. David kept it a top secret from everyone, smuggled it ,placed it alongside a plaque when he reached that place and photographed it. Later on when David made the news public, a fight broke open between him and Paul. Paul accused David of cheating him and announced plans to sell copies of the statue through a New York art gallery. In spite of efforts from David to stop it, Paul went ahead with the plan, but only one copy sold. Finally he withdrew that effort. Identify the name of the original aluminium statuette and the only place where you will find the original.

David Scott

Paul Van Hoeydonck

6.The following are two twitter messages in 2016 from an user called @illMindOfRobin (a user from Sweden)

“ A kid in Iraq …..

This messages led a Kurdistan TV channel to claim that they have found the kid. (on the top right)

Another message from the same user- “it wasn't Iraq. duhok is where my parents were born so I just made it up. every media says Iraq without source referencing to me…..”

Identify the actual person (description would do…name not needed) whom the boy on the top right is falsely claiming to be?

7.X is a piece of short fiction in Bengali by Mahasweta Devi, has been adapted and produced as a play(of same name) in Hindi by Usha

Ganguli of the theatre group Rangakarmee. In 1993 a award winning Hindi film ( of same name) was directed by Indian director Kalpana Lajmi based on the story. The title (X) is a reference to a custom in

certain areas of Rajasthan where women of a lower caste are hired as professional mourners upon the death of upper-caste males. Identify X

8.Identify the place(that was in the news in 2016), where an archaic Greek poet by

the name of Sappho was born, that connects the three people featured below.Stratis Valamios

Aimilia Kamvisi Susan Sarandon

9.Artist Stuart Semple, created colours used for painting like

world’s 'pinkest' pink and ‘glitteriest glitter’, then banned X

and his representatives from purchasing or using these colours, to protest X, who

obtained exclusive rights to the colour 'Vantablack‘ (blackest

black) to use in art. But X did manage to buy ‘pinkest

pink’ and posted this not-so honourable photo on Instagram

with the caption "Up yours #pink".

Identify the world famous artist X.

10.In a rare instance of a leading corporate chief criticising the government's demonetisation move, Mr X said both the idea and execution of demonetisation is faulty, while Speaking at the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) Leadership Forum in Mumbai recently. Mr X also took a dig at the government's 'Make in India' campaign, saying that depending on "government approval or judicial process" will turn "Made in India to Mad in India". After five years, we are still waiting for permission to sell our four-wheeler in the country.”

Identify Mr.X and the name of the four wheeler (partially masked logo on the right) he could not sell in India but exports to 16 countries.

11.The collaboration between Mr.X and Selznick is one of the oddest partnerships in Hollywood history, the union of a overweight Englishman with a flair for striking detail

and a penchant for the perverse, and a dynamic movie mogul with a keen eye for successful entertainment on the grand scale. It began in 1938, when producer David O. Selznick agreed to bring X from England. In spite of their successful collaboration

they fell out with each other. Mr X as a way of taking revenge made the villain in one of his movies ‘Y’ look very much like Selznick.

Identify Mr.X and the critically acclaimed movie ‘Y’ based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder".

David O. Selznick

Raymond Burr as Lars Thorwald (the villain) in the movie

12.Two men X and Y had a bet, on whose favourite team will win the finals of men’s ice hockey in the 2010 winter Olympics. Each wagered a box of Molson beer, the oldest

beer company in Y’s country. X lost the bet and dutifully kept the promise. But in addition to what X agreed, he also added a case of Yuengling beer which is

manufactured by the oldest brewery in his country. X lost again in the 2014 winter Olympics bet with a different brand of beer.

Identify X and Y.

13.Sripuranthan Natarajan Idol, a stolen 900-year-old statue of Nataraja was recently returned by Australia to the Indian government on ethical grounds. The investigative

website ( and a book by the same name written by Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino) Chasing ___________ was the first to expose that the Shiva idol acquired

by the National Gallery of Art (Australia) was a stolen artwork from Southern India. The investigation by the authors/bloggers started with investigation of source of a

particular statue (pictured below) found in Getty museum. Identify the statue (to be filled in the blank) whose Roman equivalent is the goddess Venus.

14.Recently singer Wyclef Jean has been “arrested” or detained in a case of mistaken identity over a gas station

robbery in Los Angeles .On August 5, 2010, Wyclef Jean filed for candidacy for

the 2010 presidential election of a country. But the Electoral Commission

ruled him as ineligible to stand for office, as he had not met the constitutional

requirement to have been resident in that country for five years. He also got into controversy over findings of financial

fraud in his charitable activities to help that country tide over the devastation caused by 2010 earthquake. Name the

country for which this multiple Grammy winning singer attempted to become a

president.

15. Identify the science or technology (Tony Ryan) that connects the poem(Simon Armitage) on the left

and the fashion project (Helen Storey)on the right.

Simon Armitage

Tony Ryan

Helen Storey

16.Chinese National Language Monitoring and Research Centre along with a publishing house and the website of People’s Daily, conducts annual exercise of selecting a Chinese word / phrase that best sums up the past year. A particular 2

word phrase was suggested by many internet users which was inspired by the clear skies during a international event in Beijing in 2014, that later was used to refer

something beautiful, but ultimately fleeting. Identify the two word phrase that was later censored across the internet by Chinese

authorities.

17. X died in hospital on 30 March 1930, in Switzerland, leaving his wife, Bhanumati. News of his death was suppressed by then British government in India. He had made

prepaid arrangements with the local government of Geneva and St Georges cemetery to preserve his and his wife’s ashes at the cemetery for 100 years and to

send their urns to India whenever it became independent. Finally on 22 August 2003, the urns of ashes of X and his wife were handed over to then Chief Minister of

Gujarat State. A memorial called Kranti Teerth has been built near Mandvi in 2010 which houses a replica of a building that originally existed in London, statues of X

and his wife and urns containing their ashes. Identify X

18. “I have seen almost all the countries of the world but I saw nowhere such a beautiful harmony of the sky and the water than that I had the privilege to enjoy on

the shore of Balatonfured filling my soul with rapture.” This above quote by an Indian has been used in the tourism promotion brochure of this country . After recuperation

in the hospital where he was admitted, he planted a linden tree in the premises (plaque at the foot of the tree, featured below).Identify the Indian who made the

quote above in 1926 when he stayed here for treatment and the country.

19. Eshwar, came up with the idea while doing his electrical and electronics engineering at SRM University in Chennai. In 2011, by end of his first year in college, he and his classmate Sudeep decided to build a prototype. But for lack of money, at

the college fest, they set up a food stall and sold vadapav & jal jeera. After having sufficient money to build the prototype they approached a street- side shop near their college and struck a deal with the owner to test the prototype. Finally they received a funding from Indian Angel Network in their final year of engineering in 2013. The first unit was sold to a restaurant at Rishikesh in Uttarakhand. Identify the function of the

machine.

Eshwar

Prince CharlesKate Middleton

20. Kristen Visbal is an American sculptor living and working in Lewes, Delaware. She specializes in lost-wax casting in bronze. Some of her

sculptures include The Goddess of the Sea, a mermaid with two dolphins framed in water and Girl Chasing Butterflies. But she is known

for another work which happens to be her famous work of date. Identify her most famous sculpture.

21.“We see you as family,” “If I had my will, I would have recommended that the all women Indian Formed Police Unit (FPU) would continue its

stay in the country for the time being. These were the words of the incumbent woman president of this country at a farewell ceremony for

the Indian female peacekeepers. Identify the country in which the Indian female peacekeepers were present from 2007 to 2016 that inspired the local women to make up 17 per cent of the country’s

security sector, as compared to 6 per cent nine years ago before the arrival of the all-female Indian contingent.

22. The man who invented this type of beer was a mathematician named Michael Ash, who was hired by a legendary brewery at Ireland in 1951. The Irish breweries in those days had a very complicated & time consuming way of serving draught beer. Ash, to simplify the process, used X that was present everywhere and saw it as a obvious solution. The beer unlike normal beers has thick, creamy head made of very small bubbles that appear to travel downwards in the glass when poured, all because of X.

Identify X and name this type of beer which is now made by many companies.

Michael Ash

23. According to the romanticized legend, Iwasaki as he watched over his sick wife Suzu by candlelight (because they couldn't afford electricity), inspired by the patterns on the melted wax dropping on the mat did something afterwards. "Suzu, it’s done.“ - Takizo Iwasaki said."Oh, I can’t tell which one is real…“ – Suzu responded.Takizo Iwasaki was a Japanese businessman who is credited with the invention of "shokuhin sampuru“. Iwasaki was featured as a Google Doodle on 12 September 2016. Which invention is Takizo Iwasaki credited with?

Takizo Iwasaki

24.CONNECT

25. Joyojeet pal’s work focuses on social and technological issues related to the role of information and communications technology like social media in developing

countries. This assistant professor at the University of Michigan researched and produced the award-winning documentary, "For the Love of a Man“ (2015) based on

the fan following of South Indian film star Rajnikanth. Recently he came to limelight for his research on a famous personality under the title ‘__________ and the Rebranding

of _____________’. Fill in the blanks.

Joyojeet pal

1.In 2011, in a UN security council meeting, when Mr X read out from the text meant for his Portuguese

counterpart for around three minutes, when Hardeep Singh Puri, India's envoy to the UN, realised the gaffe, stopped MR X and gave him the right papers. Identify Mr X who actually started his political career in Praja

socialist party.

Hardeep Singh PuriLuis Amado

SM KRISHNA

2.The planet has 27 known moons, of which 25 are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and the rest from works

of Alexander Pope. Identify the planet.

URANUS

3.Lewis Pugh an ocean advocate, a maritime lawyer and a swimmer has a habit of swimming in world’s vulnerable aquatic bodies to highlight

the importance of protecting them only in a costume consisting of ‘swimming - underwear’, a goggle and a swim-cap, all of a particular brand. Recently his efforts have led to 24 nations signing a landmark

agreement to protect a vast area of Antarctica. Media has dubbed his style of activism as __________ __________ .

SPEEDO DIPLOMACYLewis Pugh

4.After completing his Masters in International Business at Brunel University London, Ashutosh returned to Ahmedabad to start his own e-

commerce venture Aajkiitem, a platform for lifestyle products and ‑consumer electronics. Priyank completed his MBA from IBS-Ahmedabad

and joined Ashutosh in starting this company in 2015. Name the company whose advertisements features Actor Sunil Shetty.

Ashutosh

Priyank

Sunil Shetty

BEARDO

5.David Scott met artist Paul Van Hoeydonck at a dinner party and requested him to make a small statuette which should be lightweight but sturdy, capable of withstanding the temperature extremes, could not be identifiably male or female, nor of any identifiable ethnic group. David kept it a top secret from everyone, smuggled it ,placed it alongside a plaque when he reached that place and photographed it. Later on when David made the news public, a fight broke open between him and Paul. Paul accused David of cheating him and announced plans to sell copies of the statue through a New York art gallery. In spite of efforts from David to stop it, Paul went ahead with the plan, but only one copy sold. Finally he withdrew that effort. Identify the name of the original aluminium statuette and the only place where you will find the original.

David Scott

Paul Van Hoeydonck

FALLEN ASTRONAUT ON THE MOON

Apollo 15 mission 1971

6.The following are two twitter messages in 2016 from an user called @illMindOfRobin (a user from Sweden)

“ A kid in Iraq …..

This messages led a Kurdistan TV channel to claim that they have found the kid. (on the top right)

Another message from the same user- “it wasn't Iraq. duhok is where my parents were born so I just made it up. every media says Iraq without source referencing to me…..”

Identify the actual person (description would do…name not needed) whom the boy on the top right is falsely claiming to be?

Murtaza Ahmadi, the five-year-old Afghan boy who became an online sensation after pictures circulated on Facebook of him in an improvised

plastic bag Lionel Messi jersey

7.X is a piece of short fiction in Bengali by Mahasweta Devi, has been adapted and produced as a play(of same name) in Hindi by Usha

Ganguli of the theatre group Rangakarmee. In 1993 a award winning Hindi film ( of same name) was directed by Indian director Kalpana Lajmi based on the story. The title (X) is a reference to a custom in

certain areas of Rajasthan where women of a lower caste are hired as professional mourners upon the death of upper-caste males. Identify X

According to a custom, in certain areas of Rajasthan, women are hired as professional mourners after the death of a male relative. These

women are referred to as a ‘rudaali’ (roo-dah-lee), literally translated as female weeper. They in turn publicly express the grief of family

members who are not permitted to display emotion due to social status.

8.Identify the place(that was in the news in 2016), where an archaic Greek poet by

the name of Sappho was born, that connects the three people featured below.Stratis Valamios

Aimilia Kamvisi Susan Sarandon

LESBOS island of GREECE.Two residents of the Greek island of Lesvos, and Hollywood actress

Susan Sarandon, were nominated for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. They were chosen to represent the Greek islanders and foreign volunteers

who were offering a helping hand to the thousands of refugees landing on Greek shores after escaping war.

9.Artist Stuart Semple, created colours used for painting like

world’s 'pinkest' pink and ‘glitteriest glitter’, then banned X

and his representatives from purchasing or using these colours, to protest X, who

obtained exclusive rights to the colour 'Vantablack‘ (blackest

black) to use in art. But X did manage to buy ‘pinkest

pink’ and posted this not-so honourable photo on Instagram

with the caption "Up yours #pink".

Identify the world famous artist X.

ANISH KAPOOR

Stuart temple

ANISH KAPOOR

10.In a rare instance of a leading corporate chief criticising the government's demonetisation move, Mr X said both the idea and execution of demonetisation is faulty, while Speaking at the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) Leadership Forum in Mumbai recently. Mr X also took a dig at the government's 'Make in India' campaign, saying that depending on "government approval or judicial process" will turn "Made in India to Mad in India". After five years, we are still waiting for permission to sell our four-wheeler in the country.”

Identify Mr.X and the name of the four wheeler (partially masked logo on the right) he could not sell in India but exports to 16 countries.

RAJIV BAJAJ and QUTE

11.The collaboration between Mr.X and Selznick is one of the oddest partnerships in Hollywood history, the union of a overweight Englishman with a flair for striking detail

and a penchant for the perverse, and a dynamic movie mogul with a keen eye for successful entertainment on the grand scale. It began in 1938, when producer David O. Selznick agreed to bring X from England. In spite of their successful collaboration

they fell out with each other. Mr X as a way of taking revenge made the villain in one of his movies ‘Y’ look very much like Selznick.

Identify Mr.X and the critically acclaimed movie ‘Y’ based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder".

David O. Selznick

Raymond Burr as Lars Thorwald (the villain) in the movie

Alfred Hitchcock and Rear Window

12.Two men X and Y had a bet, on whose favourite team will win the finals of men’s ice hockey in the 2010 winter Olympics. Each wagered a box of Molson beer, the oldest

beer company in Y’s country. X lost the bet and dutifully kept the promise. But in addition to what X agreed, he also added a case of Yuengling beer which is

manufactured by the oldest brewery in his country. X lost again in the 2014 winter Olympics bet with a different brand of beer.

Identify X and Y.

X- Barack Obama ( President of USA)Y – Stephen Harper (Prime Minister

of Canada)

13.Sripuranthan Natarajan Idol, a stolen 900-year-old statue of Nataraja was recently returned by Australia to the Indian government on ethical grounds. The investigative

website ( and a book by the same name written by Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino) Chasing ___________ was the first to expose that the Shiva idol acquired

by the National Gallery of Art (Australia) was a stolen artwork from Southern India. The investigation by the authors/bloggers started with investigation of source of a

particular statue (pictured below) found in Getty museum. Identify the statue (to be filled in the blank) whose Roman equivalent is the goddess Venus.

14.Recently singer Wyclef Jean has been “arrested” or detained in a case of mistaken identity over a gas station

robbery in Los Angeles .On August 5, 2010, Wyclef Jean filed for candidacy for

the 2010 presidential election of a country. But the Electoral Commission

ruled him as ineligible to stand for office, as he had not met the constitutional

requirement to have been resident in that country for five years. He also got into controversy over findings of financial

fraud in his charitable activities to help that country tide over the devastation caused by 2010 earthquake. Name the

country for which this multiple Grammy winning singer attempted to become a

president.

HAITI

15. Identify the science or technology (Tony Ryan) that connects the poem(Simon Armitage) on the left

and the fashion project (Helen Storey)on the right.

Simon Armitage

Tony Ryan

Helen Storey

AIR PURIFYING POEM AND CLOTHING

16.Chinese National Language Monitoring and Research Centre along with a publishing house and the website of People’s Daily, conducts annual exercise of selecting a Chinese word / phrase that best sums up the past year. A particular 2

word phrase was suggested by many internet users which was inspired by the clear skies during a international event in Beijing in 2014, that later was used to refer

something beautiful, but ultimately fleeting. Identify the two word phrase that was later censored across the internet by Chinese

authorities.

“APEC BLUE”

17. X died in hospital on 30 March 1930, in Switzerland, leaving his wife, Bhanumati. News of his death was suppressed by then British government in India. He had made

prepaid arrangements with the local government of Geneva and St Georges cemetery to preserve his and his wife’s ashes at the cemetery for 100 years and to

send their urns to India whenever it became independent. Finally on 22 August 2003, the urns of ashes of X and his wife were handed over to then Chief Minister of

Gujarat State. A memorial called Kranti Teerth has been built near Mandvi in 2010 which houses a replica of a building that originally existed in London, statues of X

and his wife and urns containing their ashes. Identify X

Shyamji Krishna Varma

INDIA HOUSE IN LONDON

18. “I have seen almost all the countries of the world but I saw nowhere such a beautiful harmony of the sky and the water than that I had the privilege to enjoy on

the shore of Balatonfured filling my soul with rapture.” This above quote by an Indian has been used in the tourism promotion brochure of this country . After recuperation

in the hospital where he was admitted, he planted a linden tree in the premises (plaque at the foot of the tree, featured below).Identify the Indian who made the

quote above in 1926 when he stayed here for treatment and the country.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE and HUNGARY

19. Eshwar, came up with the idea while doing his electrical and electronics engineering at SRM University in Chennai. In 2011, by end of his first year in college, he and his classmate Sudeep decided to build a prototype. But for lack of money, at

the college fest, they set up a food stall and sold vadapav & jal jeera. After having sufficient money to build the prototype they approached a street- side shop near their college and struck a deal with the owner to test the prototype. Finally they received a funding from Indian Angel Network in their final year of engineering in 2013. The first unit was sold to a restaurant at Rishikesh in Uttarakhand. Identify the function of the

machine.

Eshwar

Prince CharlesKate Middleton

The machine makes one Dosa in one minute

20. Kristen Visbal is an American sculptor living and working in Lewes, Delaware. She specializes in lost-wax casting in bronze. Some of her

sculptures include The Goddess of the Sea, a mermaid with two dolphins framed in water and Girl Chasing Butterflies. But she is known

for another work which happens to be her famous work of date. Identify her most famous sculpture.

FEARLESS GIRL

21.“We see you as family,” “If I had my will, I would have recommended that the all women Indian Formed Police Unit (FPU) would continue its

stay in the country for the time being. These were the words of the incumbent woman president of this country at a farewell ceremony for

the Indian female peacekeepers. Identify the country in which the Indian female peacekeepers were present from 2007 to 2016 that inspired the local women to make up 17 per cent of the country’s

security sector, as compared to 6 per cent nine years ago before the arrival of the all-female Indian contingent.

LIBERIA

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

22. The man who invented this type of beer was a mathematician named Michael Ash, who was hired by a legendary brewery at Ireland in 1951. The Irish breweries in those days had a very complicated & time consuming way of serving draught beer. Ash, to simplify the process, used X that was present everywhere and saw it as a obvious solution. The beer unlike normal beers has thick, creamy head made of very small bubbles that appear to travel downwards in the glass when poured, all because of X.

Identify X and name this type of beer which is now made by many companies.

Michael Ash

X - NITROGEN

NITRO BEER

23. According to the romanticized legend, Iwasaki as he watched over his sick wife Suzu by candlelight (because they couldn't afford electricity), inspired by the patterns on the melted wax dropping on the mat did something afterwards. "Suzu, it’s done.“ - Takizo Iwasaki said."Oh, I can’t tell which one is real…“ – Suzu responded.Takizo Iwasaki was a Japanese businessman who is credited with the invention of "shokuhin sampuru“. Iwasaki was featured as a Google Doodle on 12 September 2016. Which invention is Takizo Iwasaki credited with?

Takizo Iwasaki

FAKE FOOD – to be used as display pieces in restaurants.

24.CONNECT

Kishok Gugan asked for Rahul Gandhi’s jacket; Shilpi Tewari asked for Narendra Modi’s stole. Both party workers were granted their wish by

the respective leaders.

25. Joyojeet pal’s work focuses on social and technological issues related to the role of information and communications technology like social media in developing

countries. This assistant professor at the University of Michigan researched and produced the award-winning documentary, "For the Love of a Man“ (2015) based on

the fan following of South Indian film star Rajnikanth. Recently he came to limelight for his research on a famous personality under the title ‘__________ and the Rebranding

of _____________’. Fill in the blanks.

Joyojeet pal

TWITTER AND REBRANDING OF MODI