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Quiz Masters :

Nishit Kagalwala

Shubham Godshalwar

Infinite Bounce

What is being talked about here?

The name was inspired by the Firefly television series in which a _____ is an electronic communication (often consisting of a video call or video message). During the developer preview, a number of references were made to the series such as Lars Rasmussen replying to a message with "shiny", a word commonly used in the series to mean cool or good, and the crash message of _____ being a popular quotation from the series: "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!".

Google wave

According to a report by theTimes of India, the French authorJean-Yves Ferri (who is currently writing a new Asterix and Obelix story) wants to set a new adventure in old-time India where he will introduce a new character in the Asterix universe named ______, inspired by the most famous Indian.

Gandhix

X is the officialmascotofY. X was originally designed as a submission for alogocontest. Ys creator took his inspiration for X from a photographhe found on anFTPsite,showing a figurelooking strangely like theCreature Comfortscharacters made byNick Park. Xis also an abbreviation of the outfit which springs to mind when one sees the creature.

X-Tux, Y- Linux

X is one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, where he served as its first CEO and Chairman in the early 80s. In 2004 he formed his own firm,X Ventures, which focused on venture investments in various technology sectors, most notablyclean technology.

In May 2010 it was announced that former British Prime MinisterTony Blairwas to join X Ventures to provide strategic advice regarding investments in technologies focused on the environment

Vinod Khosla

X was created by Phanindra Sama and Charan Padmaraju from BITS Pilani seven years ago.

The idea emanated from an experience that Phanindra had in the winter of 2005 in Bangalore, when he struggled to make it home for Diwali.

It was taken over by the Ibibo Group, a joint venture of South Africa's Naspers and China's Tencent in June 2013.

Redbus.in

______________ is celebrated on October 23rd. It officially starts at 6:02 A.M. and ends at 6:02 P.M on that day.

Mole day 6.02 * 10 ^23

Name the product

The shape of this product is modelled after a hyperbolic paraboloid.

This design characteristic is beneficial as it helps keep the product from breaking during distribution by eliminating lines of stress along which a small crack may easily propagate. Further, it keeps a stack of the product tightly interlocked or nested during distribution.

The name of the product came from a street in Cincinnati. The name was chosen simply for its sound and appeal.

Pringles

He was born in 1963 inBhopalto aTamil IFS officer. He is an alumnus of DPS RK Puram, IIT- D and IIM A. He wasthe chief economic adviserto India'sMinistry of Financeduring last year and chief economist at theInternational Monetary Fundfrom 2003 to 2007. He is also a member of the eliteGroup of Thirty, an international body of leading financiers and academics which aims to deepen understanding of economic and financial issues and their consequences.

To attend to his current duties as the new ____ ________ of India, he is on leave of absence as a professor of finance at theBooth School of Business, University of Chicago.

Who is he ?

Raghuram Rajan, RBI Governer

Vorsprung durch Technik is a German phrase which roughly translates to "Advancement through technology" .

Since 1971, it has been the mainadvertising sloganand company ethos for a prominentGermancar manufacturer.

Which company ?

____ was a Roman Emperor who was known for his tyranny. According to legend, when the Great Fire of Rome started in 64 AD, he spent his time playing lyre and singing while the entire city was burning.

A widely used computer software has an obvious pun on this incident. In its initial version, while the software ran, it did not allow the user to execute any other operation on the computer.

Name the emperor and you will also know the name of the software.

Nero Burning ROM!

(Nero is a German company and the pun is even more obvious as Rom is the German word for Rome).

Black

then

white are

all I see

in my infancy.

Red and yellow then came to be,

reaching out to me,

lets me see.

There is,

so ,

much,

more and

beckons meto look though to these,infinite possibilities.As below so above and beyond I imagine,drawn outside the lines of reason.Push the envelope.Watch it bend.

Song : Lateralus

Artist : Tool

Album : Lateralus

Year : 2002

What is the big deal about these lyrics ?

The syllables during the verses form the first fewFibonacci numbers, ascending and descending:

(1) Black,

(1) then,

(2) white are,

(3) all I see,

(5) in my infancy,

(8) red and yellow then came to be,

(5) reaching out to me,

(3) lets me see.

(2) There is,

(1) so,

(1) much,

(2) more and

(3) beckons me,

(5) to look through to these,

(8) infinite possibilities.

(13) As below so above and beyond I imagine,

(8) drawn be-yond the lines of reason.

(5) Push the envelope.

(3) Watch it bend

________ came to India with the British Army; end of World War I saw Indian soldiers of British Indian Army bringing it back with them as a diet supplement. A lot of well-to-do Indian families took to drinking ________ in early 1940s and 1950s and it became a sort of status symbol in upper middle class and the rich classes.

It is currently the most widely consumed packaged beverage in India, after bottled water.

William ________, the patent holder of the drink, has a mountain range in Antarctica named after him because not only did he support the expeditions financially, but his product also provided a non-perishable source of nutrition to the explorers.

FITB

X,an IIT-Kharagpur graduate, quit his job in the US Air-force and worked with Red Chillies Entertainment as an assistant director for Om Shanti Om.He then made a couple of short films, music videos and freelanced with various ad agencies. After pitching ideas to big media conglomerates, he realised that they had a pigeon-hold idea about what would work and they werent willing to let go of the formula.

Frustated, he decided to work on his own and started his own website that featured short films, sketches, parodies and web series. The website became an instant rage across colleges in India. Which website are we talking about ?

The Viral Fever

Arunabh Kumar

Lewis took five years to chronicle Narnia

Tolkien had twelve years, and Rowling took ten

Lucas spent nearly three decades on Star Wars

And we all know how that one turned out in the end

Youre not our bi*ch and youre not a machine

And we dont mean to dictate how you spend your days

But please, bear in mind, in the time that youve had

Shakespeare churned out thirty-five friggin plays

Lyrics of a song titled Write like the wind by Paul and Storm.

Who is the subject of this song ?

George R. R. Martin

___ ____ ___ is a phrase spoken by the character Leonard McCoy in the original Star Trek series, to declare someone or something deceased and is considered hiscatchphrase.

The line has entered popular culture as a general metaphor, with uses as diverse as describing an unresponsive electronic circuit to describing an opponents destruction in an action game.Most famously, Google Chromeuses the phrase as an error message if a tab gets terminated unexpectedly.

What is the phrase ?

Hypoglycemia, dehydration, acetaldehyde intoxication, and vitamin B12 deficiency are all theorized causes of symptoms. It may last up to two or three days.The term was originally a 19th century expression describing unfinished businesssomething left over from a meetingor survival. In 1904, the meaning that we now associate first surfaced.Dehydration, fatigue, headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, flatulence, weakness, elevated body temperature, hypersalivation, difficulty concentrating, sweating, anxiety, irritability, sensitivity to light and noise, erratic motor functions (including tremor), trouble sleeping, severe hunger, and lack of depth perception are the visible symptoms. Ther no "proven-remedies" though many have their insightful opinions on it. What am I talking about??

Hangover.

Founded in 1889, they are the third club in world to have launched a co-branded credit card in their name after Manchester United and Barcelona FC. Identify the club.

Mohun bagan

This is said to be the 1st usage of this particular technology. Few renowned applications of this technology have been The Matrix and Max Payne(game). What??

This is known as bullet time technology. Picture shows 1st instance of usage. Used in the Neo vs "lots of agent smiths" fight in the second part.

X is scientifically known assildenafil citrate , X was originally developed to treatheart disease but the trials were disappointing and it caused an unusual side effect. Since that time, X has become a global success story, with annual sales exceeding a staggering 1 billion dollars yearly.

Pfizer, Viagra

His favorite color is blur

His politics are terrifying.

He is illegal in 17 U.S. states.

If you tune your radio to 88.4 FM you can actually hear his thoughts.

His genitals are on upside down.

What is been talk about here!?

The Stig

Minimal Posters and Print Ads

Betting Round

Ad by PETA mocking Burger King of course .

Infinite Bounce

REVERSE

From the novel Ulysses,"If you see Kay,Tell him he may.See you in tea,Tell him from me."A love song from Memphis Slim ,If you see KayPlease tell her I say, "Hurry home."Lord I ain't had no lovin'Since my little Kay been gone.If you see Kay,Please bring her home to me.These are two instances of encoding. What is encoded??

if u see kay = 'f''u''c''k'... the word f*** , one of the first instances of the word coming up and somehow.... also the word 'cunt' = "see you in tea"

1.$$-- 824 times

2.##-506

3.Summer of Sam(1999) -- 435

4.Nil by Mouth(1997) -- 428

5.Casino(1995) -- 398

6.Alpha Dog(2007) -- 367

7.Twin Town(1997) -- 318

8.Running Scared(2006) -- 315

9.Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat(2002) -- 311

10.Menace II Society(1993) -- 300

11.Goodfellas(1993) -- 300

12.Narc(2002) -- 297

13.Harsh Times(2006) -- 296

14.Made(2001) -- 291

15.Another Day in Paradise(1998) -- 291

16.Pride and Glory(2008) -- 291

17.Dirty(2005) -- 280

18.I'm Still Here(2010) -- 280

19.Jarhead-- (2005) -- 278

20.Bully(2001) -- 274

21.State Property 2(2005) -- 271

22.Brooklyn's Finest(2010) -- 270

23.Resovoir Dogs(1992) -- 269

24.Pulp Fiction(1994) -- 265

25.The Big Lebowski(1998) -- 260

Movies with the number of times the word 'fuck' is used in them..

What is the following said to have inspired...??

Indeed it is roadies.. (implying raghu aka bald bastard isnt all that creative!!)

After WTC 9/11 it was brought down... the twin towers are visible inthe reflection in the eyes IF U SEE..

This is what happened. He had the drudge job, compiling the world-leading car magazine's review yearbook.

Each critique began with a large, red, drop capital letter. His role was to put the entire supplement together, which "was extremely boring and took several months".

Time for fun. By carefully re-editing the beginnings of all the stories, he made the red letters spell out a slightly rude message.

A great wheeze. Nobody at work twigged. Within days of publication, readers did. Several wondered if they'd won a prize.

X was called into the managing director's office and dismissed.

My Best Friend's Birthday, was written by Craig Harmann and X, when X was working at the Video Archives( now defunct). The original short script later expanded to an 80 page script, and X directed the movie along with Harmann. Only a 36 minute cut of the movie survived from the original 70 minutes, and while it has been shown at film festivals, never been officially released. X often referred to this as his "film school" and some of the actors here, appeared in his more famous movies.

Name X.

Quentin Tarantino

Andrei Kirilenko is a Russian basketball player While playing for the N.B.A Team Utah Jazz he got a very popular nickname. What is it??

AK-47

ID the person.There are two super-hit movies based on the his life.

Haji Mastaan

James Wan is widely known for directing thehorror film Sawand creatingX.

Xis apuppetthat has appeared in theSawfranchise.

X was used by the series' mainantagonistJohn Kramer

X also appeared in other movies like Insidious, Death Sentence, Dead Silence, Scary Movie 4 etc.

On aepisodeofThe Hardy Show, former WWE SuperstarMatt Hardydressed up as X for Halloween.

ID X.

Billy

History of which logo??

1st - The Brain logo

2nd - Vitaphone shield

3rd - Zooming Shield

4th - __ __ logo

5th - Classic shield

6th - __ __ - 7

7th - The Kinney Shield

8th - WCI shield

9th - The Big W

10th - The Shield returns

11th - CGI Shield

10

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

9

8

11

10

It came into use in theUnited Statesin the 1930s, derived from the African-Americanslangfor dance. Famous names associated with this are Wurlitzer, Rowe-Ami, Seeburg, NSM and Jupiter.

It is also the moniker of a Koramangala 7th block restaurant that dishes out lousy soapy beer.

What?

Jukebox

Jukebox

Connect the Dots

What phrase does this originate?

Thinking Out Of The Box

The term is thought to derive from management consultants in the 1970s and 1980s challenging their clients to solve the "nine dots" puzzle, whose solution requires somelateral thinking

Polish-KowalskiItalian-FerrariSpanish-HerreraScottish-McGowanHungarian-KovacsEnglish-?

Smith

William Addis of England is believed to have produced the first mass-produced X in 1780.In 1770 he had been jailed for causing a riot; while in prison he took a small animal bone, drilled small holes in it, obtained some bristles from a guard, tied them in tufts, passed the tufts through the holes on the bone, and glued them. He soon became very rich. He died in 1808, and left the business to his eldest son, also called William; the company continues to this day under the name of Wisdom Xs. Pig hair was used for cheaper Xs, and badger hair for the more expensive ones.

What common items origin has been described above?

Toothbrush

Just some geeks monitoring their coffee situation. Put funda please.

All hail coffee for giving us webcams and Java.:D

First Time webcam been used

Who are these?

Yolande Breedt

Nceba Mpiliswana

Astara Mwakalumbwa

Anushka Life

Ricky Williams

Sonwabile Kelengeshe

Makaziwe Bili

Zoe Van Rooyen

Rea Rangaka

Stacey Rethman

Tarryn Page

Vodafone Zoozoos

These two deutsche bank towers have a very crafty name .

The two aspects of every financial transaction.

Debit & Credit

Being an icon in his sport, Xs leather have a WLF emblazoned on them for Viva La Figa or LongLive Pussy. X is even an Inter Milan fan.

Identify this sportsman whose iconic nickname comes from the clinical manner in which he

dismantles his opponents.

Valentino Rossi, The Doctor

The person in the pic, Wayne Mclaren developed lung cancer in 1990, he cited his 30-year smoking habit as the cause of his cancer. Just before his death, a television spot was filmed showing images of him appearing as the cowboy juxtaposed with those of him on his hospital bed. How do we know him better?

Marlboro Man

There is no story of revenge here. My grandfather(Shafiq Khan) was killed by an assassin hired by my grand-uncle, Hanif. My father killed the assassin. Thats why he is in jail.

None of this is in the film,says Iqbal Khan, son of Faheem Khan ,after being released from prison on bail.

He also adds, criticizing the names used in the movie, saying that you are likely too find Prince and Goodwin Khans here instead. Identify the movie.

Id, and whats his claim to fame?

Dennis Hwang

Designer of Google Doodles

Javed Akhtar, in love with actress Honey Irani, requested his partner Salim Khan to meet her mother Perin Irani on his behalf. The conversation that took place between Salim and Perin was incorporated into which films script?

Xis a digital distributor ofBollywoodandKollywoodmusic, with rights to over 2 million music tracks.In Hindi, X is the season ofMonsoon, which is often associated with music.

It was founded as BODVOD networks in 2006 by Vin Bhat, Neal Shenoy, and Paramdeep Singh,in a partnershipbetween New York-based parent company 212Media, Indian company Hungama, and Schramm Sports & Entertainment.

In its former incarnation as BODVOD Networks, X was the first company to offer Bollywood content on demand on cable television and on iTunes.

Id X.

Saavn

an acronym for South Asian Audio Visual Network."

X is a currencylaunched on June 21, 2014. People who sign up early for a X wallet got first dibs at mining what were eventually 69 million Xs.

In a June 2014 interview published byThe Times(South Africa), one of its three founders said: X is mainly an idea that we came up with because we wanted to be very business minded. Sometimes we feel a bit uncomfortable talking about this matter because we're not trying to promote pornography personally... We're trying to promote a currency that is a conduit for that. We are walking that thin line. We are not really pornographers - we are basically business guys who are bringing in a currency which caters to a specific audience."

TitCoin

Plagiarism In Bollywood Music

Lets find the Copytams

Clip-1

Song: Mehbooba O Mehbooba.

Film: Sholay.

Copied From: Say You Love Me (Demis Roussos).

Clip-2

J.P Rags- If Its Tuesday , This must be Belgium

Chura liya hai tumne jo dil ko-

Yaadon Ki Baarat

Clip-3

A Kiss To Buid A Dream On

Louis Armstrong

Kaisi Peheli Hai yeh Zindagani

Parineeta

Mega Connect

Elivs Presley

Richard Nixon

Ku Klux Klan

The Black Panther Party

Dr. Pepper

John Lennon

Shot in butt

American Football

Smile

Forrest Gump

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