GENERAL QUIZ-FINALS

Abhilash B R
Sriram G
•Thanks to all the members of the QQC.
•Questions contributed by
Anand,Varun,Suhas.
•Thank You to all the teams for coming out
and participating.
 ROUND 1
• Starting Clockwise.
• Infinite Bounce.
• +10 for direct/pass.
1. In 1981, a scandal arose after the police discovery of Licio Gelli's
secret freemasonry lodge Propaganda 2(P2), which aimed to change
the country’s political system to a more authoritarian regime to
oppose communism. The list of people involved in P2 included
members of the secret services and some prominent characters from
political arena, business, military and media. X, who was then just
starting to gain popularity as the founder and owner of "Canale 5"
TV channel, was listed as a member of P2.
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2.Connect Motorola with the pic
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3.
• Krauncha
• Makara
• Kurma
• Trishula
• Kamala
• Garud
• Oormi
• Mandala
• Vajra
• Shakata
• Asura
• Deva
• Soochi
• Sringataka
• Chandrakala
• gimme one more(the most famous one)!
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4. Newspaper reporting what incident?
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5. His family had originally hailed from Tumuluru in Guntur District. He
was also known as Ramalinga, a Shaiva name. There is a conflict on
going in between mahamantri Thimmarusu and Ramalinga as
thimmarusu is vaishnava and he is shiva.It is believed that he later
converted to Vaishnavism.His most famous work, Panduranga
Mahatyamu, is dedicated to god Panduranga, a form of Vishnu, whose
main temple stands at Pandharpur in Maharashtra. He died due to a
snake-bite.He was one of the ashtadiggaja's
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6.The * is round and has its name engraved into its top
surface. The edges of the top surface are also engraved with
an intricate design. * was created in 1874 to commemorate
the marriage of the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of
Russia to the Duke of Edinburgh. * is also a symbol of
Spain’s economic recovery after the Spanish Civil War.
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 LVC
• 12 visuals
• One attempt each slab.
• +40/-203 pics
+30/-153 pics
+20/-102 pics
+10/04 pics
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+40/-20
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+30/-15
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+20/-10
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• DRIES 2
1.
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2.
• 1.A two and a five beats two queens
• 2.A four and a nine makes a FULL X
• 3.A three and a six is the D-X
• 4.In this game once u win 700$, u have 2 double it
• 5.After the doubling bonus, the player gets one card which is worth 1500$.That one
card is 2 of spades
• 6.A two and a three beats a king and a queen.
• 7.Jack and a queen loses to four and a five.
• 8.The Cup card, the sitting down bonus,the saucer card,etc are the other terminology
used.

• "Beginners'luck-very important".which game??

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3. It's central assumption was that the performance of each player in
each game is a normally distributed random variable. Although a
player might perform significantly better or worse from one game to
the next, it assumed that the mean value of the performances of any
given player changes only slowly over time. This system evaluates
player's true skill as the mean of that player's performance random
variable.A further assumption is necessary, because the performance
in the above sense is still not measurable. One cannot look at a
sequence of moves and say, "That performance is 2039." Performance
can only be inferred from wins, draws and losses..What am i talking
about??
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4. X served as a writer for a military newspaper in the U.S. Army from
1944-1946. After graduation, he took a semester of graduate courses
in sociology and women and gender studies at Northwestern
University but dropped out.Working as a copywriter for Esquire, he
left in January 1952 after being denied a $5 raise. In 1953, he lent his
furniture for $600 and raised $8,000 from 45 investors - including
$1,000 from his mother ("Not because she believed in the venture," he
told E! in 2006. "But because she believed in her son") - to launch Y...
X,Y??
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5 The Fiat 124 is a mid-sized family car produced by the
Italian manufacturer Fiat between 1966 and 1974. It was
the replacement of the Fiat 1300 and Fiat 1500. Thanks in
part to the ubiquity of the Lada version of the car in
Eastern Europe, the 124 has achieved iconic status, and is
one of the biggest selling cars of all time with an estimated
15 million units sold. SEAT 124 in Spain,Lada 1200 in
Russia,Pirin-Fiat in Bulgaria,Murat 124 in Turkey. Just tell
me the Indian name for the car.
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• X picked up 19-year-old Arnold Murray outside a cinema in
Manchester. After a lunch date, X invited Murray to spend
the weekend with X, an invitation which Murray accepted
although he did not show up. The pair met again in
Manchester the following Monday, when Murray agreed to
go to X's house. A few weeks later Murray visited X's house
again, and apparently spent the night there.
• After Murray helped an accomplice to break into his house,
X reported the crime to the police. During the investigation,
X acknowledged a sexual relationship with Murray.What
happened next???
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 Stage 2
• 6 questions
• Slabs of two
• 1st slab - +30/-15
• 2nd slab - +20/-10
• 3rd slab - +10/ 0
• Any serving of alcohol which is double than
the normal serving, or unusually large, is
referred to as the X Peg. This term is
understood in most parts of India. There are
multiple stories behind this epithet, most
related to the opulent and hedonistic lifestyle
of one of the maharajas of X - Maharaja
Bhupinder Singh, who was a heavy drinker
• - Before middle 15th century rule, the region that is
X was a barren wilderness called "Jangladesh". The
territory forming the boundaries of X was ruled by
Jat dynasty of Jats
• XY is a spicy snack made from moth dal, spices and
edible oil. X is also known for its handicrafts and
leather articles, for its palaces and for having Asia's
biggest camel farm.
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• X's father Rambha was king of the asuras, and he once
fell in love with a water buffalo (Princess Shyamala,
cursed to be a buffalo); X was born out of this union. He
is therefore able to change between human and buffalo
form at will.
• According to Hindu mythology, the area around Y was
known as ______ (means baffalo ancient name was
ERUMAIYUR in Tamil it belongs to old kongunadu)
and was ruled by X. Give me Y.
• only city in india to have both an IIM and
an IIT
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• DRIES #3
1."You have deliberately tasted two whole
worms and now you can leave Oxford on
the town drain". Name the Warden of New
College Oxford who said this?
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3. He was born in Baramati, Pune District. At birth, he was named
Ramachandra.
A commonly held theory suggests that he was given his name because
of an unfortunate incident. Before he was born, his parents had three
sons and a daughter, with all three boys dying in their infancy. Fearing
a curse that targeted male children, young Ramachandra was brought
up as a girl for the first few years of his life, including having his nose
pierced and being made to wear a nose-ring ("Nat" in Marathi). It was
from this that he got his popular nickname by which v all know him.In
1930, X's father was transferred to the town of Ratnagiri. While
staying with his parents at Ratnagiri, he first met Veer Savarkar.
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Connect to
a phrase
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5.
A British, Australian and Hiberno (Irish) English colloquial term for a paying
guest or customer, especially

• * a patron of a public house

• * a patron of a brothel
• * a customer of a prostitute
• * a gambler, particularly an amateur betting on horse racing or a player in
the game of Baccarat
• * a beginner skier or snowboarder, especially one with particularly bad style
• * a speculator in the stock market

• Someone who uses a ____(boat)

• ______ (football), a position in American or Canadian football
• The ______s, a Newfoundland traditional music group
• ______ (protocol), a file-transfer protocol.
• which word??
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• Washing powder nirma song!
• Hema rekha jaya aur sushma