March Madness-Finals

7/28/2019 March Madness-Finals

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March MadnessFinals

Alok Singh


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Round 1

Identify the company/brand

30 seconds

Write down the answers +2/correct answer


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c - Cadbury

a - Coca Cola

n - Disney

y - ebay

o - Sony

u - Blockbuster

s - Subway

p - Pepsio - Oracle

t - Tesco

t - TicTacs

h - Yahoo

e - Esso

l - Louis Vuitton

o - Canon

g - General Electric

o - Lego


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Round 2

On Buzzer

6 Questions,+5 each

Minimalistic posters for 6 moviesby SOMEONE. Identify the movies.


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Answers


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Round 3

12 Questions Infinite Bounce-Clockwise

+10, direct question

+10/-5, pounce


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1. Which country is advertising?


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I ROMA'NY'A Campaign


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2.

The award was originally established by RhodaKosenig, a literary critic, and Auberon Waugh, thethen editor of the "Literary Review". The given

rationale is "to draw attention to the crude,tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundantpassages of ______, and to discourage it". Someprominent winners include Aniruddha Bahal, Tom

Wolfe and Norman Mailer. John Updike has beenbestowed with a Lifetime Achievement. What amI rambling about?


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Bad Sex In Fiction Award


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3.

This amateur sport is widely popular amongst

the rural youth. Different variants exist

worldwide. Known as 'lippa' in Italy, 'tip cat' in

UK, 'pee wee' in USA, 'syatong' in Phillipines,how do we know it in India? Some Indian

champions of this sport are Ajay Kaushik,

Rohit Mishra, Upendra Kumar, SomendraKumar, Vivek Baranwal.


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Gilli Danda


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4.

The founding ideas for this began with an article

titled "Those Eyes", on the subject of actresses

with beautiful eyes. Hank Driskill began to collect

a list, then called rec.arts.movies of attractiveactresses and what movies they had appeared in.

As the size of the repeated posting grew far

beyond a normal newsgroup article, it soonbecame known simply as "THE LIST".

How do we know it now?


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IMDB


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5. Whose words?

Finally, I now stand before the court to accept thefull share of my responsibility for what I havedone and the judge would, of course, pass againstme such orders of sentence as may be considered

proper. But I would like to add that I do not desireany mercy to be shown to me, nor do I wish thatanyone should beg for mercy on my behalf. Myconfidence about the moral side of my action has

not been shaken even by the criticism levelledagainst it on all sides. I have no doubt that honestwriters of history will weigh my act and find thetrue value thereof someday in future.


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Godse


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6. Id?


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7.

The word XY is used for a girl who is flashy in

appearance. The word can be called part of slang,

and can be derogatory as well, though it's not a

swear word. Exactly, X here refers to the sound of jingling as

someone walks, and Y was most probably used

for a ring (not necessarily the one worn in afinger) and hence XY was used for someone who

used to make a jingling sound with her jewels.


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X-Chammak

Y-Challo

Chammak Challo


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8.

He got his nickname due to resemblance to

Luis Ferrigno who portrayed X in 70s TV series.

He registered with UEFA under his new

moniker in 2008 when he joined Porto after aspell in Japan with Tokyo Verdi who played in

green.


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Hulk


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9.

X's unique flavour, its name gives it

considerable added value in an Indian context.

The traditional hospitality generously offered

to visitors in India is enhanced with an extra

dimension of humour with the serving of X,

given the significance of the name in the

traditional welcome:

" Ki Pivon Ge? X


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Kuchh Nai


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10.

AchAryAt___________Adatte, ___________ shiShyaH swamedhayA|

sa-brahmachAribhyaH___________, ___________

kAlakrameNacha

Rough translation is as follows:

one fourth from the teacher, one fourth from own

intelligence, one fourth from classmates, and onefourth only with time.


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More clues

Violent blowout/Without restraint of______intoxicating though it comes in smallamount. Though creates only a small sounddisturbance. God thinks, it kills the life around

The primary ______ is like the sound of motorvehicle

The secondary ______stutters like sound of thetrain

Tertiary one is like the siren of ambulance But, the quaternary one is a silent killer


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11.

Constructed in 1890, it was originally intended

to be of use to British Officers. Spread over

total of 10 acres, each slab owner has to pay

Rs. 293/annum to the local municipalcorporation.

What is being talked about?


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Dhobi Ghat


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12.

New York times reporters decided to test how

people went about this new six and half

syllable word which could fetch one 47 points on

a scrabble game, much to their expectation manycould not spell/ pronounce it correctly .

Also they noted that people had funny codes like

I, a fiat like, la Joe, cuckle & Hey, ya fergot LaYogurt, in order to pronounce it properly

What word?


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Eyjafjallajkull

Its Icelandic for "island-mountain glacier"


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Round 4

10 questions

On Buzzer

+6/-3


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1.

This term is used to describe a group of British

writers of 1950s, whose words express

bitterness of the lower classes towards upper

classes.

A Bollywood legend gets his nickname from it.


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Angry Young Men


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2.

Newspeak and Doublethink are coinages in

which novel?


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1984


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3.

Thomas Elva Edisons companies, holding

about 1300 patents, were consolidated as

________.


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General Electric


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4.

13th zodiac sign suggested by US astronomer

Parke Kunkle in 2011 is______?


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Ophiuchus


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5.

A terrorist whose dead/alive status is not

known is called _______?


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Schrodingers terrorist


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6.

Which divine weapon did Rama kill

Ravana?


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Brahmastra


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7.

Which Bollywood actors residence is named

Dzongrilla?


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Dakshin


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9.

Off which Indian bowler did Javed Miandad hit

a last-ball six at Sharjah?


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Chetan Sharma


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Rudyard Kipling


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Round 4

Infinite Bounce-Anticlockwise

12 questions

+10, direct question

+10/-5, pounce


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1.

Armalcolite is a titanium-rich mineral with thechemical formula (Mg,Fe2+)Ti2O5. It was first

found at Tranquillity Base in 1969. What is so

significant about this mineral?


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Discovered on Moon.

Named after Armstrong, Aldrin andCollins.


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2.

George Mallory was an English mountaineer who took partin the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in theearly 1920s.

During the 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition, Malloryand his climbing partner Andrew Irvine both disappeared

somewhere high on the North-East ridge during theirattempt to make the first ascent of the world's highestmountain. The pair's last known sighting was only a fewhundred metres from the summit.

Mallory is famously quoted as having replied to the

question "Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?" withthe retort ____ __ ____, which has been called "the mostfamous three words in mountaineering. What words?


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3. Some of his best remembered insults are:

"I wish you were a statue and I were a pigeon." Telling a fly-swatting English cricket captain, Douglas Jardine, to

"Leave our flies alone, Jardine. They're the only friends you've gothere."

"Send 'im down a piano, see if 'e can play that!"

"Oh for a strong arm and a walking stick!" (at bad bowling; legspinner Arthur Mailey, a regular victim of this one, quotes it severaltimes in his book 10 for 66 and All That)

"Those are the only balls you've touched all day!" (To an Englishbatsman adjusting his box in between overs).

"Put a penny in him, George, he's stopped registering" (To anumpire who read gas meters and emptied the cash boxes for aliving, when a batsman at the crease was scoring slowly)

"Your length's lousy but you bowl a good width!" (To an oppositionbowler)


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Yabba


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5. Identify.

1914 : stomach severely cut by a woman resulting inentrails displaced, yet survives

On December 16, 1916 a group men serve cakes andred wine laced with a massive amount of cyanide, yet

survives. One of those men then shoot him when hereturns to collect some left over stuff. He then standsup and speak. The men again shoot him 3 times in theback, bind him, wrap him a carpet, & throw in a river.

Finally his dead body is washed off shore , autopsyreveals he had died actually of drowning after breakingfree from the binds.


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Rasputin


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6.

Identify this Nobel

laureate.

What is so peculiar

about hiskeffiyeh(turban)

style?


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People believe that a stone fell from the

Sanjeevni mountain while Hanuman wascarrying it to Lanka.


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h d ld?


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Why Tintin does not grow old?

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9.

American President coming to India. If I had

known, I wouldnt have gone looking for him

all over America & met him in Andheri or

Ghatkopar. Funda?


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Shah Rukh Khans tweet on President Obamas

visit to India referring to his character in My

Name is Khan.


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11.

This self labeled "theone and only HighEnergy Rock Band hassomething peculiarabout it. What?

(Apart from the factthat this picture was the

first to be uploaded onthe WorldWideWeb)


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CERN Employees


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Sang National Anthem

First time National Anthem was sung before a

match.


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Origin of the Names of the Months


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January: named after Janus, the god of doors and gates

February: from the old-Italian god Februus

March: named after Mars, the god of war

April: from Aphrodite, original Greek name of Venus,

May: named after Maia, the goddess of growth of plants

June: fromjunius, Latin for the goddess Juno

July: named after Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.

August: named after Augustus Caesar in 8 B.C.

September: from septem,Latin for seven

October: from octo,Latin for eight

November: from novem,Latin for nine December: from decem,Latin for ten

Final Round


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Final Round

On Buzzer

10 questions

+6/-3


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What company was founded by him?


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Red Hat


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Lifeline Express


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Y Mi


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Yao Ming


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Chelseas comeback against Napoli


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#CL

8. Who is she?


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8. Who is she?


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Shweta Nanda

9. Poster of?


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9. Poster of?


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10. Brand/Company/Anything?


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10. Brand/Company/Anything?


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Tihar Jails


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