TTQ 4.0 Finale

TOP 6 (FINALE – TTQ 4.0)

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ROUND 1• Total 12 Questions• No negative marking. +10

for correct answers.• No passing allowed.• 2 Direct Questions per team

Question 1

First kind of what ?

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Question 2

Starting in 1987 and rather incredibly, this South American was featured on Forbes’ international billionaires list seven years in a row and would have probably continued on this list but not for his dramatic death in December 1993. Who?

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Question 3

“Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" is a frequently administered check in the online world. Under what name we know it commonly?

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Question 4

K.F. Rustamji was a police officer who served as the chief security officer of Nehru. In 1965, he was asked to set up the Border Security Force (BSF) in India. In 1978, he visited the jails in Bihar and wrote two articles in the Indian Express about the conditions of the under trials languishing in the jails for long periods without a trial. These articles formed the basis for the first X in India. Identify X.

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The first PIL (Public Interest Litigation) in India, namely "Hussainara Khatoon vs State of Bihar" was filed based on these two articles.

Question 5The 10 criteria for what? • Human Creative Genius• Interchange of Values• Testimony to cultural tradition• Significance in human history• Traditional human settlement• Events of universal Significance• Natural Phenomena or beauty• Major stages of Earth's history• Significant ecological and biological processes• Significant natural habitat for biodiversity

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Criteria for World Heritage Site Selection

Question 6

It's about a man’s wife who is brutally murdered by a serial killer and his son is left physically disabled. In a twisted turn of events his son is kidnapped and the dad has to track and chase the kidnapper thousands of miles with the help of a mentally disabled woman.

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Question 7

The origin of X is uncertain. In North India, different varieties of X developed in the Muslim centers of Delhi, Lucknow and other small principalities. According to Lizzie Collin ham, the modern X was created by the Mughals , as a confluence of a native delicacy of India and the Persian pilaf.

According to Kris Dhillon, the modern X originated in Persia, and was later brought to India.

A similar theory—that X came to India with Timur's invasion—also appears to be incorrect, because there is no record of X having existed in his native land during that period.

ID X, whose origin is uncertain but its likeness isn’t.

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Question 8

ID the person from his clothing

Line.

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Question 9

Put Funda.

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Question 10

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Question 11

The evangelical cult “Paz do senhor amado” in the interior of Brazil forbids its followers to use any of this technology by contending that it uses a symbol that shows sympathy for devil.According to its founder “Apostle” Welder Saldanha, “the symbol is a trident, which is used to torture souls that go to hell. All users of that vile technology are actually worshipers of Satan”What is the Technology?

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Question 12

Who will you associate with the title

“The Emperor has No Balls” ?

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ROUND 2• Total 8 Questions• Marking Scheme : +10/-5• Question goes to team first

pressing the buzzer.

Question 1

A Billion Dreams is apparently a movie on the god of cricket. What is the name of the production house for the film which is extremely apt ?

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Question 2

This term was popularized by a 1994 episode of the American  sitcom Friends entitled "The One with the Blackout", where the character  Ross Geller, who was lovesick for Rachel Green, was described by character Joey Tribbiani as being the "mayor of the X". What term am I talking about, which has got famous these days?

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Question 3

P G V M O Shastri, a photographer for the newspaper “Aaj Ki Aawaz” is a well-known personality for all of us, but by a different alias.How do we better know him?

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Question 4

In academics, 'X syndrome' occurs when the expected answer is not given but the student writes all that he knows and expects the professor to figure out the answer. In medical science, it is a term for certain complications following a cardiothoracic surgery.ID X

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Question 5

As part of an advertising campaign called “Ahh effect”, which company bought domain names like Ah.com, Ahh.com, Ahhh.com up to Ahhhh...(62h).com?

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Question 6

Put Funda.

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Question 7

Inelastic scattering of a photon, better known as what?

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Question 8When X wrote his first novel, he had intended for his protagonist to be an extremely dull and uninteresting man. Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure - an anonymous, blunt instrument. So naturally, X also wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name. X was also a keen bird watcher, and owned the book “Birds of the West Indies”. He later explained that he found the author’s name brief, unromantic, and yet very masculine. So he decided to name his protagonist after the author. Name X, and the famous protagonist of his novel.

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ROUND 3• Audio/Visual Quiz• Total 8 Questions• Marking Scheme : +10/-10• No Passing allowed. Hands on

buzzer

Question 1

ID her.

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NEERJA BHANOT

Question 2

ID the Speaker.What is he talking about?

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Question 3

Connect

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SAMSUNG’s Galaxy Series :• Core• Ace• Note• Gear

Question 4

ID the clip.

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Question 5

ID.

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Question 6

ID the TV Series.

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ROUND 4 : GAME OF THRONES• Total 8 Questions. +10/-10• First team to press buzzer gets to

answer first.• Team answering the question

correctly gets the choice to ask the next question to a particular team.

• No passing allowed.

Question 1

X is a Scandinavian name and is a short form of Sigrid, of old Norse origin and literally means “beautiful victory”.The name X has been widely used in middle ages, and is a common name in Scandinavian countries even today.

X is now a name of a software which is used in a company Y’s products and is famous for its witty and apt responses.

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Question 2

This is a print ad featuring a very famous personality X.This was her first brush with fame with the ads that said “Towels so good you want To wear them”. When X was engaged to Y, who belonged to a powerful family, the company manufacturing the towels was commandedTo pull down the ad and clam up all the possible records of it.X and her son are very active in politics.

ID X and Y.

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Question 3

818 metersConnect :

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Question 4

ID the company.

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Question 5He holds the Guinness World record for being the ‘Most Public Appearances Made by A Film Star in 12 Hours.’

He made this record during the promotion of his film Delhi 6 by visiting seven different places based in NCR including Ghaziabad, Noida, Faridabad, Delhi and Gurgaon along with Chandigarh and Mumbai on 22nd February. Thus he covered the distance of around 1800 Kms in less than 12 hours by car and private jet.

Earlier it was the Hollywood star Will Smith who had the record for this category having participated in three different media events within the time duration of 24 hours while promoting his movie called ‘I, Robot’.

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Question 6

Earlier version of something. What?

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Question 7

ID the manufacturer.

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Question 8X, a very UNUSUAL BANK, was founded in 1474 and is named after its founder. It is operated by very specific kind of people. It has snowy white building and towers all around the neighboring shops. In order to enter the bank, customers have to pass through a set of bronze doors and then the silver one before entering the lobby.  The main floor is paved with marble and has long counters stretching along its length. Customers keep their money and other valuables in vaults that are protected by very complex and very strong security measures. The vaults extend for miles under London and are accessible through rough stone passageways. X is considered to be “the safest place in the world for anything you want to keep safe”.Identify X

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