‘The best of three worlds’Quiz Masters-Vatsal Vora-Nikita Moghe-Nikhil Hirve

Rules

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Straight Questions

+20 for a correct answer

No negatives

Hidden Connect

• Every fourth question in this round is a part of a megaconnect

1.What is the significance of this picture?

First picture taken by ISRO’s Mangalyaan

(Thank You ISRO…You make us proud)

2.What am I talking about ?L. = list number, Ln. = line number, Rel. = religion, Natn. = nationality, H. No = prisoner number.L. Ln. Rel. Natn. H. No Surname Forename Birth

Occupation

2 226 Ju. Po. 69061 ABRAMOCZYK Szyja 15.9.17

ang. Metallverarb.

2 271 Ju. Po. 69109 ABUSCH Josef 28.10.12

Metallarbeiterin

2 236 Ju. Dt. 69072 BARTH Nysen 17.11.04

ang. Dachdecker

2 718 Ju. Po. 77102 BARUCH Siegfried 3.5.01

Hilfsarbeiter

2 247 Ju. Po. 69084 BAU Josef 13.6.20

Zeichner/Graphiker

2 523 Ju. Po. 69379 BAUER Josef 12.12.09

Ing. Mechaniker

2 253 Ju. Po. 69091 BAUM Juliusz 17.10.07

Malerges.

2 268 Ju. Po. 69106 BAUM Naftali 11.9.13

Tischler

2 256 Ju. Po. 69094 BECK Friedrich 25.6.86

Zahnarzt

The list comprises of 1200 workers

People on the Schindler’s List

3.Id the Person

Ronald Wayne- the third founder of Apple Inc.

4.Id the Logo

Mumbai Metro(+80/-40)

5.X was born in Benares, Uttar Pradesh. Initially, X wanted to be a scientist but

ended up being a filmmaker. X was inspired to be a filmmaker by watching an Italian movie Bicycle Thieves in the International Film Festival of India . X’s

first film remains unreleased even today. X was given his first break by

Ram Gopal Verma to write screenplay for Y. ID X and Y.

(+5 bonus for unreleased film)

Anurag Kashyap

Paanch(Unreleased movie)

6.What am I talking about ?

Wanting too much of something.Action of taking too much of something in.The need to fulfill unspiritual desires Wanting to have what someone has.Being too slow or lazy at doing something.Vindictive anger; angry revenge.Being too self-satisfied

Seven Deadly Sins

7.What is Anatidaephobia?

8.Chris Messina had a simple vision.

“No need for a long preamble when a quick, to-

the-point X would do”

X were initially meant to form groups but were

rejected by the following point :

“These things are for nerds. They're never going

to catch on”

X was born out of a simple hack.

The idea for X dates back to 2007 and are now

popularly used for sorting.

ID X

Hashtags(+70/-35)

9.Who tweeted this and whom did the tweet mock ?

Burger King, Mc Donalds

10.X is the world’s most popular transportation company. It is the world’s largest manufacturer of Y transport systems. Founded in Yonkers, New York. X’s products carry equivalent of world’s population every 3 days. There is not a single person here who hasn’t used X’s products.

Id X and Y.

Y-VerticalX

11.What does Jack Whitman, Zissouand Suzi Bishop remind you of ?

People on the Whatsapp Screenshots in PlayStore

12.Identify the following lyrics

I'm just a poor boy

I need no sympathy

Because I'm easy come, easy go

Little high, little low

Any way the wind blows

Doesn't really matter to me, to me

Mama

Mama?

Yeah, mama

A h, mama

Mama, mama!

(Ahahahaha)

Mama, mama, mama, mama, mama, mama, mama, mama, yeah!

Mama, yoo hoo

Mama, yoo hoo, mama

Mama?

Mama

Dada?

Dada!

Bohemian Rhapsody by the Muppets (2009)

(+60/-30)

13.X is an American author of sci-fi, fiction, horror and fantasy. X has published over 55 novels. X also goes by the pen name of Richard Bachman and has written 7 novels under the name. X has a received a series of awards such as Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Award,and many more. X is afraid of the number 13 and doesn't stop writing whenever the page number is 13 or its multiple.

P.S.: One of the greatest movies of all time is based on a story by X.

Stephen King.

14.This company which bears the Surname of it's founder, was founded on April 1 1891, originally selling products like Soap and Baking Powder. However, today it is known for neither but an entirely another product which was first packaged with each can of Baking Powder. What company am I talking about?

Wrigleys

15.X is a phenomenon of a piece of song getting stuck in your head after playing it and often seems irritating. Essentially, X is triggered not just by hearing a song, but also by memory, mood, stress, and even boredom.98% of the people suffer from X . Though X doesnot have a verified cure, everyone has a different way of getting rid of XHint : X sounds similar to a parasite

Earworm

16.X is a type of medieval armor. The oldest X is found in Romania. Its invention is commonly credited to the CeltsHowever X can also be in form of print or handwritten.X includes emotionally manipulative stories, get-rich-quickly pyramid schemes, and the exploitation of superstition to threaten the reader with bad luck or even physical violence or death if he or she "breaks the rule”If this question is passed or answered incorrectly, the team will from suffer bad luck for next 3 quizzesID X

Chain Mails(+50/-25)

17.

X is an Indian cartoonist born in Mysore, India. X created the daily comic strip Y published in TOI , where he spent almost 50 years of his career. Y chronicled Indian life and politics through the eyes of “the common man,” a silent observer in a distinctive checked coat who served as a point-of-view character for readers.

ID X and Y.

X-R.K LaxmanY-You Said It.

18.Explain

• People were buried alive so often in the 19th century that inventors patented safety coffins that would give the “dead” the ability to alert those above ground if they were still alive.

19.

• X was a popular member of World Wrestling Entertainment.In June of 2007, X murdered his family and committed suicide. In the wake of the tragedy, it was revealed that X had previously been accused of abusing his wife and was prone to fits of rage.

Chris Benoit

20.

X was a motivational poster produced by the British government in 1939 in preparation for the Second World War. The poster was intended to raise the morale of the British public, threatened with widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities.Although 2.45 million copies were printed, and although the Blitz happened, the poster was never publicly displayed and was little known about until a copy was rediscovered in 2000. It has since been re-issued by a number of private companies, and has been used as the decorative theme for a range of products

•

Keep Calm And Carry On(+40/-20)

REVERSE

21.X is an oral hygiene product line of toothpastes, toothbrushes, mouthwashes and dental floss.X toothpaste was first sold by the company in 1873.X faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because X translates into the command 'go hang yourself’.

Colgate

22.Advertisement of?

Colgate Dental Floss

23.Decreasing attention spans, a growing ‘bored at work’ audience, the race for pageviews- all these reasons have given rise to this ever growing new form of content. X is a website similar to Buzzfeed,Upworthy but with an Indian twist.X has five co-founders who are in the their mid twenties and extended their strength to 12. X often improves (or degrades) your regular social networking feed. (Believe me ! You have shared it aleast once ;-)

ScoopWhoop

24.Explain the significance of this picture

Rice Bucket Challenge(+30/-15)

25.According to MPAA, the maximum length of X is 2 mins 30 seconds.

X’s name comes from the fact that they were originally been shown at the end of a feature film screening. However, the practice didn’t last long but the name stayed.

ID X.

Trailer

26.Maurice Tillet was a French pro wrestler born in 1903. As a child he had a completely normal appearance and Tillet was nicknamed “The Angel” due to his angelic face. He was highly intelligent, allegedly speaking 14 languages and being quite gifted in prose and Chess. He finished law school but always aspired to be an actor. He transformed himself into a pro wrestler called the “French Angel”. He soon became so popular that he was booked unstoppable, going undefeated for a span of 19 months. However we know him for completely different reason. (See the picture)

Shrek is Based on him :-D

27.

X is a term , commercially used as early as August 2000. It was coined by a brand-consulting firm called Interbrand Corporation. The firm that promotes this “term” and its use had hired Interbrand to determine a name that was "a little catchier than 'IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence'".

Identify X

• WiFi

28.The only thing worse than X is death, No, I got it backwards.X can tie his shoes with his feetX is the only person that can make u feel a punch to your face in your groinX made a bet with hulk whoever loses a bet in arm wrestling will paint himself green.X can put out fire with gasolineNon exhaustive

X is not Rajnikanth

Chuck Norris(+20/-10)

29.X is the oldest TV channel in India ,started on 15 September 1959. X is owned by Y,

India’s largest public broadcaster. X started it regular transmission in 1965 as a part of All

India Radio.

30.What is it that is 11cm and made of red teracoata artifact and consists of the following lines :

"When Ivo goes back with X,X;Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote return, return;

The welkin will ring loud,The great crowd will feel proud, Seeing Barlow and

Bates with X,X;And the rest coming home withX."

The Ashes Urn

"In affectionate remembrance of English

Cricket which died at the Oval on 29 August

1882. Deeply lamented by a large circle of

sorrowing friends and acquaintances. RIP. NB.

The body will be cremated and the ashes

taken to Australia."

31.These posters are a brainchild ofAkshar Pathak, who makes movie posters based on one element kept in association with the film. Id the movie from the poster shown on the left.

Minimal Bollywood Posters

32.

• Madhuri Dixit as Nisha Choudhury• Salman Khan as Prem• Mohnish Bahl as Rajesh• Renuka Shahane as Pooja Choudhury• Anupam Kher as Prof. Siddharth Choudhury• Reema Lagoo as Mrs. Choudhury• X as Kailash Nath• ID X• ID the Film

Alok Nath :-P(+10/-0)

Answer ??

Internet Trends/Internet Phenomenon

Dumb Ways to Die (Initiative to promote safety on Metros)HashtagsBohemian Rhapsody By the MuppetsChain MailsKeep Calm and Carry OnIce Bucket ChallengeChuck NorrisAlokNath Memes(It’s not exactly on the Wiki List But after 100 more Kanyadaans I’m sure it will :-D)

33)Classic film camera representing motion pictures

Television receiver representing broadcast television

Phonograph record representing audio recording or music

Radio microphone representing broadcast radio

Comedy/tragedy masks representing theatre/live performance

What’s this?

5 categories of entertainment-Hollywood Walk of Fame

34)X has a secret vault named Y which contains all of its sets ever made. Y contains over 4720 sets. X’s name is derived from phrase meaning ‘play well’. X Group production was started by Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter from Billund, Denmark started by producing wooden toys. The name X came much later.

ID X and Y

Lego ,Lego Memory Lane

• 35)X profession has a 6 foot 4 inch height limit .Richard Hieb manage to flout the rule in 1994. How?

• Astronaut . He was 6 foot 3 inch and then grew in space.

36)"The first time he came to training we were doing one against ones. He was so small, so thin.

His skill was so quick and so tricky, he was so skilful that he passed me so easily. I was not

really ready for the type of player he was. From then, I thought he was a special talent and then physically he grew up and now every season he

just performs better.“Id the person who said this and also the person

talked about.

Cesc Fabregas on Lionel Messi

37)Most of us know that X happened in 1918. But it might be shocking to hear that it officially occurred on 3 October 2010. It

occurred with the final payment of 59.5 million pounds by Y.

Ans- X- The official end of World war I

Y-Germany

38)The X were introduced to counter the threat of rock music. In the late 1950s, a group of record executives

were alarmed by the explosive success of rock ‘n roll, considering it a threat to

"quality" music

Ans X-Grammy awards

39)Id the famous sportsperson who tweeted the following. He had once made a guest appearance in the popular TV show

‘Suits’

Michael Phelps

40)Formula One driver X was seriously injured after his car hit a

TRACTOR during the Japanese Grand Prix.

X of Y smashed into the vehicle that was recovering the car of Z, which had

crashed out the lap previously.

X-Jules BianchiY-MarussiaZ-Adrian Sutil

MEGACONNECT

+200/-100

+180/-90

+160/-80

+140/-70

+120/-60

+100/-50

+80/-40

+60/-30

+40/-20

+20/0

Topics in Satyamev Jayate

• Old age

• Alcohol abuse

• Water crisis

• Casteism and Untouchability

• Corruption

• Sports

• Waste management

• Police reforms in India

• Satyamev Jayate

• Aamir Khan productions

Small Connects

Luis Suarez Bite Memes(Had to put this one :-p The QM has a crush on

the player but is a newbie to the sport ;-))

Mathew McConnaughey

Non Exhaustive

Asian Games 2014Gold Medalists.

• Yogeshwar Dutt

• Jitu Rai

• Mary Kom

• Seema Punia

Narendra Modi

Top Quora Writers 2013

• Adam D’Angelo

• Virali Modi

• Jimmy Wales

Actors portraying Akbar

TATA MOTORS

Stand-Up Comedy Groups

Death Eaters

• Barty Crouch Jr

• Peter Pettigrew

• Alecto and Amycus Carrow

• Lucius Malfoy

ISL Team Owners

Grand-slams Venues

Sudha Murty’s Books (Dollar Bahu, Gently falls the bakula,Mahashweta,

House of Cards)

Connect!There Is one more name in this list . (+10 Bonus for the name)

Bollywood movies in Imdb bottom 100

Gunday

Tees Mark Khan

RGV ki Aag

Himmatwala

NewspapersDNAMumbai MirrorAsian ageHindustan times

James Rodriguez

Game of Thrones swords

Mega Connect

Fictional Companies.

CHOAM – DuneLos Pollos Hermanos – Breaking BadAcme Corp – Looney TunesSpacely Space sprockets- JetsonsWeasleys Wizard Wheezes-H.PNakatomi Corp.Wayne EnterprisesOscorpWonka Industries