Therersquore totally 11 ways a batsman can be dismissed in Cricket Caught Bowled Run out Hit wicket Stumped and LBW are the six most common ones Name the other five
2 points for each
1 Obstructing the field
2 Handling the ball
3 Retired
4 Hit the ball twice
5 Timed out
Zeroth pointh oneth round
4 questions
20 points at stake this time
Shown will be re-enactments of famous ldquophotographsrdquo on The Simpsons
Simply name them 5 points for each
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination
ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo
Fall of Saigon
Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Still written
3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer
Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10
No points for the individual answers
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo
ABC will should give you the connect
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society
One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y
The connect lies in Y
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka
Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Zeroth round
1 question
Written
10 points at stake
Therersquore totally 11 ways a batsman can be dismissed in Cricket Caught Bowled Run out Hit wicket Stumped and LBW are the six most common ones Name the other five
2 points for each
1 Obstructing the field
2 Handling the ball
3 Retired
4 Hit the ball twice
5 Timed out
Zeroth pointh oneth round
4 questions
20 points at stake this time
Shown will be re-enactments of famous ldquophotographsrdquo on The Simpsons
Simply name them 5 points for each
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination
ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo
Fall of Saigon
Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Still written
3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer
Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10
No points for the individual answers
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo
ABC will should give you the connect
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society
One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y
The connect lies in Y
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka
Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Therersquore totally 11 ways a batsman can be dismissed in Cricket Caught Bowled Run out Hit wicket Stumped and LBW are the six most common ones Name the other five
2 points for each
1 Obstructing the field
2 Handling the ball
3 Retired
4 Hit the ball twice
5 Timed out
Zeroth pointh oneth round
4 questions
20 points at stake this time
Shown will be re-enactments of famous ldquophotographsrdquo on The Simpsons
Simply name them 5 points for each
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination
ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo
Fall of Saigon
Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Still written
3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer
Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10
No points for the individual answers
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo
ABC will should give you the connect
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society
One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y
The connect lies in Y
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka
Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
1 Obstructing the field
2 Handling the ball
3 Retired
4 Hit the ball twice
5 Timed out
Zeroth pointh oneth round
4 questions
20 points at stake this time
Shown will be re-enactments of famous ldquophotographsrdquo on The Simpsons
Simply name them 5 points for each
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination
ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo
Fall of Saigon
Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Still written
3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer
Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10
No points for the individual answers
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo
ABC will should give you the connect
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society
One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y
The connect lies in Y
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka
Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Zeroth pointh oneth round
4 questions
20 points at stake this time
Shown will be re-enactments of famous ldquophotographsrdquo on The Simpsons
Simply name them 5 points for each
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination
ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo
Fall of Saigon
Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Still written
3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer
Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10
No points for the individual answers
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo
ABC will should give you the connect
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society
One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y
The connect lies in Y
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka
Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination
ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo
Fall of Saigon
Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Still written
3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer
Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10
No points for the individual answers
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo
ABC will should give you the connect
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society
One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y
The connect lies in Y
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka
Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination
ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo
Fall of Saigon
Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Still written
3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer
Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10
No points for the individual answers
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo
ABC will should give you the connect
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society
One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y
The connect lies in Y
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka
Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination
ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo
Fall of Saigon
Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Still written
3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer
Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10
No points for the individual answers
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo
ABC will should give you the connect
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society
One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y
The connect lies in Y
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka
Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
(iv)
Answers
Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination
ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo
Fall of Saigon
Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Still written
3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer
Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10
No points for the individual answers
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo
ABC will should give you the connect
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society
One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y
The connect lies in Y
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka
Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answers
Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination
ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo
Fall of Saigon
Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Still written
3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer
Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10
No points for the individual answers
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo
ABC will should give you the connect
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society
One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y
The connect lies in Y
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka
Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination
ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo
Fall of Saigon
Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Still written
3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer
Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10
No points for the individual answers
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo
ABC will should give you the connect
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society
One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y
The connect lies in Y
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka
Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo
Fall of Saigon
Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Still written
3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer
Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10
No points for the individual answers
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo
ABC will should give you the connect
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society
One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y
The connect lies in Y
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka
Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Fall of Saigon
Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Still written
3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer
Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10
No points for the individual answers
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo
ABC will should give you the connect
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society
One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y
The connect lies in Y
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka
Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Still written
3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer
Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10
No points for the individual answers
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo
ABC will should give you the connect
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society
One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y
The connect lies in Y
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka
Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Still written
3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer
Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10
No points for the individual answers
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo
ABC will should give you the connect
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society
One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y
The connect lies in Y
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka
Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo
ABC will should give you the connect
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society
One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y
The connect lies in Y
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka
Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society
One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y
The connect lies in Y
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka
Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka
Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka
Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Lysergic Diethylamdie
1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka
Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom
The cover remains the same only the title is altered
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer - Dracula
Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title
First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise
Ready
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
1
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
2 -
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
3
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
3
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
4
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
4
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
5
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
5
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
6
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
6
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
7
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
7
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
8
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
8
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
9
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
9
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
10
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
10
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Scores
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Round 2
20 Questions
10 points each
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room
To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears
Hint
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo
ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film
2
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah
According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
3
Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something
The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)
Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo
(Image on the next slide)
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively
Id X and Y
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Lord Ayyappa
Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
6
Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles
However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
7 Put funda
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known
(Image in next slide)
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
9
While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Arabic Inshallah
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years
Frank Do you know who ___________is
Dwayne Hes the guy you teach
Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed
>
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
St Bernards
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo
This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo
What did he do
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
He threw a party announced it one day late
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
13
What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
15
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
16
An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person
>
4350904
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Jason Alexander
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X
It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011
Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013
Id X
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Posterous
Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three
httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Spider-Man Lizard
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
20
ldquoThe Newrdquo
ldquoThe Inactiverdquo
ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo
ldquoThe Alienrdquo
Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Helium and Radon
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Set of two questions for each team
One Direct One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)
For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many
For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Round 3 ndash Last Round
Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo
Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT
Last slide
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
(i) Identify the movie
Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
(ii) Identify the song
ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different
It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo
Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Bum Pe Laat
Back
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
(i) Who
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
(ii)
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Back
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
(i)
Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Pitbull
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
(ii)
I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl
___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Back
httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds And pesticides
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
(ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people
What
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
The Batphone
Back
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
(i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
A Potato
Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
(ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two
Which is the third
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Answer
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Back
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Scores
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
Answer (22)
St Bernards
12
Answer (23)
Answer (24)
13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
Answer (25)
The Ericsson Globe
14
Answer (26)
John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
15
Answer (27)
Slide 103
16
Answer (28)
Jason Alexander
17
Answer (29)
Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
Answer (30)
LOTR triology Peter Jackson
19
Answer (31)
Spider-Man Lizard
20
Answer (32)
Slide 118
Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
Answer (33)
The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
Answer (34)
Bum Pe Laat
(i) Who
Answer (35)
Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
(ii) (2)
Answer (36)
Slide 132
(i) (2)
Answer (37)
Pitbull
(ii) (3)
Answer (38)
Answer
(i) Non-exhaustive list of what
Answer (39)
Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
(ii) (4)
Answer (40)
The Batphone
(i) (3)
Answer (41)
A Potato
(ii) (5)
Answer (42)
Slide 150
Scores (3)
Thank you for coming
Thank you for coming
Finals
Zeroth round
Slide 3
Slide 4
Zeroth pointh oneth round
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Answers
Slide 11
Slide 12
Slide 13
Slide 14
Zeroth pointh twoth round
Clue 1 ndash 30 points
Clue 2 ndash 20 points
Clue 3 ndash 10 points
Answer
Lysergic Diethylamdie
Scores
Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
Slide 23
Answer - Dracula
1
Answer (2)
Slide 27
2 -
Answer (3)
Slide 30
3
Answer (4)
3 (2)
4
Answer (5)
4 (2)
5
Answer (6)
5 (2)
6
Answer (7)
6
7
Answer (8)
7 (2)
8
Answer (9)
8
9
Answer (10)
9 (2)
10
Answer (11)
10 (2)
Scores (2)
Round 2
1 (2)
Answer (12)
Slide 59
Slide 60
Answer (13)
Slide 62
3 (3)
Slide 64
Answer (14)
Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
4 (3)
Answer (15)
Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
Answer (16)
Lord Ayyappa
6 (2)
Answer (17)
Chris Putnam putnam
7 Put funda
Answer (18)
Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
8 (2)
Slide 80
Answer (19)
Tales from Sisters Grimmer
9 (3)
Answer (20)
Arabic Inshallah
10 (3)
Answer (21)
Proust Little Miss Sunshine
Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
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13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
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John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
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Slide 103
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Posterous
18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
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LOTR triology Peter Jackson
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Slide 119
Round 3 ndash Last Round
(i) Identify the movie
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The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
(ii) Identify the song
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(i) Who
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