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Culture Documents
ROUND 1 General
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Infinite bounce format 5 questions Passing allowed No negatives +10 for right answer
1.According to the epic Mahabharatha, who presented Arjuna with a powerful bow named "Gandhiva"?
Lord Varuna
2. I am originally from Weymouth, England. I was the star of the Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany and became internationally famous. I died on 26 October 2010 after attaining a ripe old age of 2.5years.
3.What is the claim to fame of Rajana Sonawane hailing from the tribal village, Tembhli, in Shahada, Nandurbar, Maharashtra on 29 September 2010?
5. What connects the words sitcom, smog, brunch, muppet and cyborg?
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Infinite bounce format 5 questions Passing allowed No negatives +10 for right answer
Mudiyettu
Irayimman Thampi
3. This painting depicts the literary work of a famous 12th century poet. Identify the painting. the answer is And
Gita Govinda
4.In 2002, she launched her solo music career with the release of the commercially successful and critically acclaimed album Come Away With Me, which was certified a diamond album in 2002, selling over 20 million copies. The record earned her five Grammy Awards, including the Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best New Artist. Identify the artist.
Norah Jones
5.Traditionally, this art form was performed only by bhokots (male monks) in monasteries as a part of their daily rituals or to mark special festivals.
Sattriya
Celtic Women
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Infinite bounce format 5 questions Passing allowed No negatives +10 for right answer
Example
Santosh Pandit
Cyrus Mistry
Vikram Sarabhai
Anna Hazare
Abhinav Bindra
John Lennon
ROUND 4 Who am I
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Buzzer Round Identify the personality from 3 clues Scoring - +30,-15 -> 1 st clue +20, -10 -> 2 nd clue +10, -5 -> 3 rd Clue Each team gets one attempt per question Check your buzzers
While a graduate student at MIT, Mr. X published a paper on an AI truth maintenance system called dependency-directed backtracking with Gerald Jay Sussman. This paper was an early work on the problem of intelligent backtracking in constraint satisfaction problems and considered to be the most powerful work of the field till date..
E x c e r p t s f r o m t h e v i s i t r e q u i r e m e n t s e m a i l o f M r. X :
I absolutely refuse to have a break in the middle of my speech. Once I start, I will go straight through . I usually decline to participate in "open source" or "Linux" events. I l i k e c a t s i f t h e y a r e f r i e n d l y, b u t t h e y a r e n o t g o o d f o r m e ; I am Mr.s oinitiated the lGNU iProjecth e m Free Software Movement X m e w h a t a l e r g c t o t and
Cafe Mondegar
MR. X Y was a regular cartoonist at Illustrated weekly of india and Times of India. He was deceased on 11 december 2011
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi discredited him as 'Santa Claus with unrealistic ideas and he was the first opposition Party member who was given a Cabinet rank post by the ruling party.
In November 2008, he wrote the first of five letters to PM Manmohan Singh seeking permission to prosecute A. Raja in regards to the 2G spectrum scam.
Subramanian Swamy
Mr. X was born on February 8th, , 1828 and has a google doodle in his credit. According to the Unesco Index Translationum, this person regularly places among the top five most translated authors in the world. His autobiographical short story "Souvenirs d'Enfance et de Jeunesse"
He is often referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction" along with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells.
In 1961, Mr. X started a new career as a stand-up comedian, debuting in a Greenwich Village club called the Duplex.
His first movie was the Charles K. Feldman production What's New Pussycat?. He is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright.
Midnight in Paris become his most successful film at the box office in the United States
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1 video per team Variable scoring round Identify well known personalities from the video shown (max 5) Expect additional questions for videos 5 points for each right identification No passing Try your luck choose your pick Video wont be repeated unless its a tech glitch
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Amala paul Sridevi unni Parvati Rima kallingal Archana kavi Mullanezhi
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A R rahman Pt. Shiv Kumar sharma santoor Pt. Vishwamohan Bhatt mohana veena Hariprasad Chaurasia flute Pt. Kartick and Niladari Kumar Sitar home Vikku vinayakam - ghatam
Forget the lady in black Name the movie? And the answer is
Roger moore Louis jourdan Kabir bedi Vijay amritraj Octopussy - film
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Tom hanks John F kennedy Dick cavett John lennon President Nixon
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poocha
ROUND 6 Twitterature
Fiction in 6 tweets
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Buzzer round 5 questions +10 for right answer, -5 otherwise 1 attempt per team Every question contain a set of 6 tweets. The set actually represents a work of fiction which you need to identify.
Heading to Paris! A man is dead and the police think only my superhuman knowledge of cryptology can solve this one.
Oh god! the police think I killed him!!! These idiots don't understand this is a CODE! Thankfully, this bangin' er, beautiful French girl is helping me out. Driving to a bank. Good time to exposit the history of all these crazy Catholic secret societies to this French girl maybe get her hot??
You know that old Italian dude who painted the picture of the smiling lady? He's the key to all of this. LOL, who would have thought? Jesus. The lady is a direct descendant of Christ. All good. Oh what? Another puzzle? Bring on the sequel!
Da vinci code
My royal father gone and nobody seems to care. I'm too sad to notice that Ophelia's so sexy and fine. And mother also looks rather fair despite all her struggles. Why is Claudius telling me what to do again? YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD! In fact you killed my real dad. :(
Hamlet
Plastics? Seriously? And now Ive got Mrs. Robinson in my room throwing my car keys into the fishtank...I dont think this night could get any weirder Parents keep bugging me about What do you want to do with your life? This generation gap couldntget any more annoying. Elaine Robinson is home. Dun, Dun, DUNNNNNN! I promised her mother I wouldn t go out with her butmy parents also threatened me that I MUST go out with her Elaine found out about the affair. Cue another montage of my misery. Scarborough Fair seems fitting.Minor chords and gloomy voices. Love it WOAHH. And the plot has turned! Elaine was just in here and asked me to kiss her! I did, of course.Now we are getting married! (I think.)
The Graduate
Whats with the slogans like War is Peace? Do only I see they make no sense? Seems someone in the government is on a very big opposites kick.
Look, brother, if I wanted to be WATCHED doing my dirty business, Id make a sex tape. Oh? You already have it?
At work; dullsville. How can rewriting history be fun if youre betraying the timeless ideal of truth? Lets see: Truth Is Lies? We defeated Eurasia in the war! Or was it Eastasia all along? Either way, well take them as usual. Sometimes youre locked up in a secret government prison. Then you meet this crazy old woman. And its you mother. Im a free man. I do love Big Brother. He is doubleplusgood truly, in my heart, I love him. Because I am free. So very free.
1984
FALLING UNTO THE ABYSSifill I'll talk more about why in several hundred pages to avoid any confusion.
'Tis Pandemonium down here. Would ROFL but it's very hot
I'm bored. I'm the chairman of the board. My compatriots are r-tards. Inaction? Is that the best we can do? We art demons! So there was a fight. Sometimes you invent gunpowder and you think SWEET but then they whip out JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF and BAM! We're in hell. Dressed as a snake. She's going for it ... Yes! She ate the forbidden apple! Guess God wasn't paying attention. Omniscient, hah! Beelzebub just isn't what I want. Stop crying! I didn't cry when I got kicked out of heaven and lost Farad I FOUND A NAME FOR MY MEMOIRS!!
Paradise lost
ROUND 7 Topic
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6 topics in total 1 question each Each team gets to select 1 topic 10 points for each right question No passing 15 seconds to answer
Movies
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Ads
Logos
Sports
Im Feeling Lucky!!
Technology
Sports
Singapore
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Movies
Q . Identify the movie star, X , who studied at Harvard from 1999 - 2003. In 2003, X graduated with a B.A. in psychology. X quoted "I don't care if college ruins my career, I'd rather be smart than a movie star." X also assisted the film's screenwriter by providing him useful facts about the events at Harvard when Facebook (it was "The Facebook" then) initially started.
Natalie Portman
Topics
ADs
Topics
Logos
Topics
Technology
Facebook IPO
Topics
Im Feeling Lucky
A Dublin theatre proprietor by the name of Richard Daly made a bet that he could, within forty-eight hours, make a nonsense word known throughout the city, and that the public would supply a meaning for it. After a performance one evening, he gave his staff cards with the word X' written on them, and told them to write the word on walls around the city. The next day the strange word was the talk of the town, and within a short time it had become part of the language. What is it?
Quiz
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ROUND 8 Connections
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Infinite bounce format 15 seconds for each question. No extra time allotted for questions passed 5 questions Passing allowed No negatives +10 for right answer
Android Versions
Chevrolet Cars
Pixar Movies
5<X<6
And the answer is
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Each team will be shown 10 questions Time alloted for each team is 60 seconds Each right answer carries 5 points and each wrong -2. You can answer the questions in any order.But please mention the question number along with it. Please say the answer through the
Team 1
6 With Dufresne is a famous character from 1.Andy which sport do you associate Yuvraaj which Movie? Walmiki? 2.. Name any one founder of Google 7. Expand ASEAN.
3. Union Minister of animal is known as 8. The fear of what Sport. arachnophobia? 9 In which author of "The find Nashik? 4. .Name thestate would youMonk Who Sold His Ferrari. 10 . How many sons does kunthi 5. Name the capital of Poland. have?
Team 2
6 Dominic "Dom" Cobbyou associate Vijay 1. With which sport do is a famous character from which Movie? Kumar? 2. Expandany one founder of Wikipedia. 7. Name ADB. 3. Which Minister of Railways. measure 8. Union instrument is used to earthquake? 4. In which author of the Twilight Series. 9 .Name thestate would you find Cuttack? 10Name the capital of Turkey 5. . In the epic Ramayana, which bird tried to prevent Ravana from carrying Sita away?
Team 3
6 Don Vito Corleone is you associate Devendro 1. With which sport do a famous character from which Movie? Singh? 2. Expand BARC 7.Name any one founder of Microsoft. 3. How many bonesAgriculture.have? 8. Union Minister of do sharks 4. Name the author of you find Gwalior? 9. In which state would"The Alchemist. 10. Who is a capitalgoddess whose name means 5. Name the moon of Hungary. 'divine favor'?
Team 4
6 With which sport famous character from which 1.Vincent Vega is a do you associate P V Sindhu? Movie? 2. Expand CSIR. 7. Name any one founder of Apple. 3. Minister of Corporate Affairs. 8. The plants that grow in saline environment are called? 4. Name the author of you Inheritance Of 9. In which state would"The find Varanasi? Loss". 10. sixth avatar of LordPortugal. 5. Name the capital of Vishnu.
Team 5
6 With which sport do you character from which 1.Tyler Durden is a famous associate P Movie? Harikrishna? 2. Expand HAL.. 7. Name founder of 4chan. 3. Minister of Rural Development. 8. What famous scientist was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics? 4. Name the author of you White Tiger". 9. In which state would"The find Jodhpur? 10. Ranchod capital the name of the which 5. Name the das is of Austria. famous hindu mythological character.
Team 2