µ APEX-'08

ONLINE QUIZ

PROBLEM SET 1

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 Something
very famous

This famous something had the following

things/organizations etc. in it (clues shown in the pictures

given below). Identify what is being discussed here and

connect all the pictures together. The answer should give

the common link, how it is linked to each of these pictures

and to whom/what do the last three pictures refer to?

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2) The building in the picture had one of the biggest rooms in the city. The
fact that the room could be heated made it useful even in wintry weather. A
society has had its annual gathering there every year since, but 128 years
later they gained the right to use the upper floor as their own. It is here
that they meet even today, and they are certainly very important for what
they do now.

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They are eighteen in strength now and they gave these people something

In the picture below…the whole family (except the small child) pictured
below and the lady’s husband (not pictured) got something similar to what
the people shown above got…

Identify the building, the people, and the family... and of all things the link!!!

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For all the history buffs out there…

Identify the following individuals and identify their link to the images given
below each…

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 Connect

Connect the following images…the list is not complete… An absolute sitter…

but the single most important picture has been omitted purposefully…

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Straight one…
Identify the two rappers in the picture…

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What are these images?

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Connect…
The link here is a simple word… but please be specific about its link to the
third picture…
1) I bet… you have seen this picture somewhere…

2) To this …

3) And this one too

If you can’t get the third one right then there is no point in cracking it!!!
Remember Google is a handy tool…

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Connect all the pictures given below with an interesting story…

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Identify this former undergarment factory worker who made vests and
briefs before joining the Communist party.

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X originated in 2nd century BC in India. X can be represented as a state
absorbing Markov chain. But the best part is that X requires no skill at all.
The cumulative probability of finishing X is given by the graph below. What
is X?

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C, who was a Kashmiri Pundit who used to work in a cigarette factory, later in
life C helped B by secretly helping B to form A. A was formed, but once its
purpose was done, B got killed in 1975. What am I talking about?

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Also known as Thambi, He is likened to a freedom fighter hero, who initially
followed gandhian methods of nonviolent protests, but left it after the
government refused to concede to his demands. He later turned to violent
activities and established a system of terrorism widely used today. Name
the dude and the system.

Clue:

SPECIFICATIONS
Alloy: Gold Au.833
Type: Struck
Diameter: 22.7mm
Thickness: 1.5mm
Weight: 7.98gms
Shape: Round
Edge: Milled
Die: Axis
Issue: #

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Sorry for all the pictures… but beating Google is not easy…
I consider all the words that I have used in between the questions quite
daring as they make these questions really vulnerable to any novice in this
trade equipped with Google…
Still I think it can resist a round or two of Googling...

Best of luck…

(Thadiyan) + (HoRnY*mOsQuItO) + (Lambooo)

“Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the

only way in which a man can become famous without
ability.” -George Bernard Shaw

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