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CME
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SPECTRUM
Stars@WarGrand Finale
19th
Concept, Idea & Research: IQCircle
Quick Rules:●As in prelims, all answers are there in the question itself.
●If not, Take Educated Guesses, Think Out of the Box, Lateral
Thinking, Edward De Bono etc etc
●You have only one obstacle between the question and the
answer: The Quiz Master.
●The Quiz Master’s job is not to help you get to the answer, but to
confuse you in all possible ways so that you overlook what is
written in front of you.
●So always take whatever the Quiz Master says with a pinch of
salt
TEAM 8PUNE
TEAM 7TVM
TEAM 6HYD
TEAM 5MCITY
TEAM 4BGLR
TEAM 3CHD
TEAM 2SHOLS
TEAM 1MYS
POSITIONTEAM NAME
●Quick introduction from teams.
●Clue Veto Rule
●For a backup, maintain your own scores
please…
●For the bad boys, QMs decision will be
final and binding.
Round 1
Infinite Bounce 1
●Rules:
6 Questions
Equal points(10) for direct / passed questions
Question 1 is directed to the first team.
Every question posed henceforth will go to the team sitting next
to the one that has answered the previous one
For instance, Question 1 posed to Team A; answered by Team
D; Next question will thus be directed to Team E.
Let us THE start ☺
●Qn)
●This happens always on the last working day in
February.
●But the issue was that it happens always after 5pm.
So it used to receive flak from all directions because
people had to wait after office hours.This tradition
was followed because the previous owners had to
wait till their parent session to get over at noon.
●Now even though the date remains the same, it
happens at 11am. What?
And the answer is
Indian Union Budget
●Qn)
●A study on Batesian Mimicry
●“Perhaps there is something even more basic going on here.
Take for example, the Plain Tiger Butterfly The Indian
Fritillary Butterfly and the Leopard Lacewing exhibit Batesian
Mimicry, so named after naturalist Henry Walter Bates, who
first documented this phenomenon in the Amazon in the mid-
1800’s. In this example, the Plain Tiger is toxic to predators,
whereas the Indian Fritillary and the Leopard Lacewing are
not. However, these latter two have evolved with the same
coloration so that predators will avoid them as well”
●What was the final conclusion of this study and what is the
relation to our normal life?
And the answer is
●This study states that the color YELLOW on RED
instillates hunger in any species. That is why...
McDonald’s chose their logo Yellow
on Red
Even McD
interiors are
painted red and
yellow
●Qn)
●One Greek myth of origin of the caduceus is part of the
story of Tiresias, who found two snakes copulating and
killed the female with his staff. Tiresias was immediately
turned into a woman, and so remained until he was able to
repeat the act with the male snake (!) seven years later.
●The more common use now is mainly attributed to a
confusion of caduceus with that of Asclepius.
●What are we talking about?
And the answer is
●Qn)
●This is the name of a unique toy that combines
bouncing and riding into one extra-fun activity.
Caster wheels let roll around, while springs in
the seat incorporate a comfortable bouncing
motion.
●But something else which has the same name
gets it from friend hopper. It also coined the verb
to X which means, to hop with friends, existing
& new. Just like a snowball that grows larger,
when rolled, you can X with friends and grow.
And the answer is
Who?●His original name was Saborjian , son of a
blacksmith.
●The name, which derives from thread painter, a
once common and humble occupation, was
changed into …………….., meaning the race of
Mohammed or the virtuous race
●Opponents have charged that the name was
changed in order to cover Jewish roots
●Pic next slide
And the answer is
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD
CURRENT IRAN President
●This is a picture from the 1979 storming of U.S Embassy in Iran
by supporters of Ayathollah Khomeini.
●Now you know what to do if you want to become next Iran
President☺
●Qn) who in china are called black children?
And the answer is
●Qn)
●This is a guy called John Montagu, 4th earl of ______.
About him Woody Allen once said, ‘We owe him so
much. He freed mankind from the hot lunch’
●This guy was a great supporter of James Cook. Cook
hence named the islands he found as ______ islands,
now called hawaiian islands.
●But the main claim to fame of this guy is something
else. Whenever he used have lunch, he used to ask his
servant to get his meat in a particular way. Since he
was the earl, everyone around him also used to ‘order
like a _____’
●Who/What?
And the answer is
John Montagu, 4th earl of
SANDWICH
Qn)
“_______met in the Hall of the Gokuldas Tejpal
Sanskrit College, Mumbai at 12,00 Noon on
December 28, 1885. A new history of one of the
______, thus, began. Among the first voices heard
were those of Mr. Allen Octavian _______, the
Hon. Mr. Subrahmania Aiyar and the Hon. Mr. K.T.
Telang, who proposed, seconded and supported the
election of the, WOMESH CHANDER ______. A
solemn and historic moment in which first of the
line of men, thus, took their seats to preside over the
__________
And the answer is
Indian National Congress
1st SESSION - BOMBAY, 1885
President
WOMESH CHANDER BONNERJEE
General Secretary
ALLAN OCTAVIAN HUME
"1st National Congress met in the Hall of the Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College,
at 12,00 Noon on December 28, 1885. A new history of one of the woorld's
largest democracy, thus, began. Among the first voices heard were those of Mr.
A.O. Hume, the Hon. Mr. Subrahmania Aiyar and the Hon. Mr. K.T. Telang,
who proposed, seconded and supported the election of the first President, Mr.
W.C. Bonnerjee. A solemn and historic moment in which first of the line of men,
thus, honoured by the Motherland, took their seats to preside over the first
National Assembly of National Congress
●It was started by A.O.Hume to create opposition to the levying of taxes on India
to finance the British Indian campaigns in Afghanistan and support for
legislative reform in India
●Qn)
●According to a story, unwilling to allow the native artisans all the credit for
excellence in creating the this, Father Manrique in 1641 advanced the
preposterous claim of the alian jeweler Geronimo Veroneo as architect of this.
●There is proof that there was an Italian jeweler by the name of Geronimo
Veroneo, indeed lived in and around this place during that time period.If ever
this Italian jeweler was really commissioned, he was overawed by the
mammoth work and cost, and wisely ran away when the project had just
started. X had asked Veroneo, says Manrique, to spend two crores.
●The jeweler who only designed necklaces and bracelets proved thoroughly
incompetent for the royal project and vanished from the scene, escaping the
Emperor's ire but providing much mirth and chuckles to the native artisans.
Even if we accept that Veroneo had a part in designing the ______, it is
somehow unthinkable to have only one designer for this . In most probability,
he was just one of the many who worked on ______ at that time.
And the answer is
TAJ MAHAL
ROUND 2
You Only Live
THRICE
●Three clues for the same Qn
●30-20-10
●A negative of minus 5 for each wrong guess.
●Only one team at a time
●Qn 1
●His father, William, was sixty-four when he was born.
●For gaining admission into Oxford, he provided false evidence that
he studied in an American institution which was actually turned out
to be a bodybuilding club.
●He was part of Oxford's unsuccessful crew in the 1962 Oxford-
Cambridge Boat Race.
While in Oxford To get himself photographed with the
Beatles, He made a fund raiser for the then little-known
charity Oxfam, obtaining the support of The Beatles in a
charity fundraising drive. The band accepted his invitation to
visit the senior common room of Brasenose College, where
they were photographed with he and dons of the college.
He was so cunning that Ringo Starr of the beatles later said
about him, “he's the kind of bloke who would bottle your piss
and sell it.' " ”
Next slide
●At 29, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the
Lincolnshire constituency the youngest person to become an MP
●In May 1991, He organised a charity pop concert in aid of the
Kurds of Iraq, starring Rod Stewart, Paul Simon, Sting and Gloria
Estefan, who all performed for free during which he ended up
collecting 57 Million pounds.
●Whatever be the case, In 1992 the Kurdish Disaster Fund wrote to
him from IRAQ, complaining: "the Kurdish refugees have seen
hardly any of the huge sums raised in the west in their name,"
●On 19 July 2001, he was found guilty of perjury and
perverting the course of justice. He was sentenced to
four years' imprisonment
●In 2004, the Equatorial Guinea government alleged
that he was one of the financiers of the failed 2004
coup d'état attempt against them, citing bank details
and telephone records as evidence
●Apart from all this he is most well known as an
author [email protected]
Qn) Who said at what historical
occasion.
●This is unbelievable. We can’t believe this.
Ladies and gentlemen… sorry… I share the
stage with two magicians, you know, who
created the very ordinary sounds of X, the
cacophony of X, into a soul-stirring, artful
resonance called Y
●Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives and all of us
converted to Sufism. Once my sister was terminally ill and doctors
couldn’t cure her. That was when my mom prayed to the saint and
she got miraculously cured.
●But it wasn’t an instantaneous decision — it took us 10 years to
convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past
●In 1982, I left _______ behind and became ____
●Who talking about what?
And The Answer Is
●In 1982, I left Dileep Shekhar behind and became
Allah Rakha Rahman.
●His lesser knwon claim
to fame was that he was
the president of the
French Football
Federation from 1919 to
1945
Qn 4)
●There was only instance in WW2 when a
civilian-transfer across two different
submarines of two different navies occured.
●This was between German submarine
Unterseeboot 180|''U-180'' around the Cape
of Good Hope and the Japanese submarine I-
29|''I-29‘‘.
●Qn)
●______ had never been through Afghanistan, and could not
speak Pashto, the language spoken in the tribal territories.
For this reason he enlisted the help of Mian Akbar
Shah.Shah and suggested a novel disguise for ______ to
assume. In particular, ______ didn't speak Pashto, the
language of the Pathan tribesmen, which would cause him to
be easily identitified by Pashto speakers . For this reason,
Shah suggested that ______ act deaf and dumb, and let his
beard grow to mimic those of the tribesmen
●The names he used were Pathan insurance agent
("Ziaudddin") and later Italian nobleman "Count Orlando
●The Legion Freies Indische or Indische Freiwilligen-
Legion Regiment 950 or the Indian Regiment 950 was an
armed unit raised in 1941 attached to the Wehrmacht, the
German Army
●The first troops of it were derived from Rommel's PoWs
captured at El Mekili, Libya during the Battles for
Tobruk.It was at Königsbrück that uniforms were issued,
in German feldgrau with the badge of the Leaping Tiger.
●Even though they didn’t take part in much action in WW2,
they were later used against the British Forces in India
And the answer is
Netaji Subash Chandra Bose
Azad Hind Legion
●Established by Subash
Chandra Bose in
Germany
●Hitler had told Bose that
let the Legion fight along
with the German army till
you need them in your
war with the British in
India.
Qn 5)
Clue 1
●He is particularly known for having introduced microprocessors
in telephone switches leading to early digital switching. His
invention of the Electronic Diary in 1975 is now regarded as one
of the earliest examples of hand-held computing.
●In 1983, he also designed his own computer-themed card game
called Compucards which used binary numbers (1, 2, 4, 8...)
instead of decimal and had a computer bug as the joker
●With over 100 patents to his credit he has been a leading name in
telecommunications and information technology for over three
decades.
Clue 2
Clue 2
●He is the Chairman of World-Tel Limited and is the founder
and CEO of C-SAM, Inc, which has developed a suite of
patented mobile transaction technology called OneWallet
●He has served as an advisor to the United Nations and in 1992
●He went on to found Wescom Switching which was acquired
by Rockwell International, where he became a Vice President
Clue 3
Clue 3●He has served in the ministries of Indira Gandhi, Rajiv
Gandhi
●In 1984, he started the Center for Development of
Telematics (C-DOT), an autonomous telecom R&D
organization.,
●His real name is Satyanarayan Gangaram (X in short)
____ He is currently with Dr. Manmohan Singh as
head of the National Knowledge Commission.
And the answer is
SAM(Satyanarayan Gangaram) PITRODA
Qn 5)
Clue 1
●The word "________" is an onomatopoeia, a word that
●imitates the sound it represents. Eg: Click, Hushh..
●________'s Chinese name literally means "very certain to
respond" or "very certain to answer" in Chinese.
Clue 2
Clue 2
●It was initially called Kumo,which came from the
Japanese word for spider, referring to the manner in
which these things "spider"
●The new name was apparently chosen because it was
memorable, short, easy to spell, and that it word
would remind people of the sound made during "the
moment of discovery and decision making. Thus it
even has its own tagline: "the sound of found!”
Clue 2
Clue 3
●A recursive algorithm is something like a fractal that
expands into itself infinitedly. Eg:GNU is not Unix
●_______ may also be interpreted as a recursive acronym for
________ Is Not Google
And the answer is
BING
Qn 6)
Clue 1
●Clue 1
●The dictionary meaning of this word is “to grope
frantically.”
Clue 2
Clue 2●Alfred Mosher Butts, an out-of-work architect from
●Poughkeepsie ended up making the first one called
LEXIKO wanting to create something that has both
chance and skill
●To decide on distribution, Butts studied the front page
of The New York Times and did painstaking
calculations of frequency. His basic cryptographic
analysis of our language and his original distribution
have remained valid for almost three generations and
in billions of this
Clue 3
Clue 3
●One hundred million sets sold world-wide. Between one
and two million sold each year in North America.
●Today the game is found in one of every three
American homes, ranging from a Junior edition to a
CD-ROM with many versions in between including:
Standard, Deluxe with turntable, Deluxe Travel,
Spanish and French.
And the answer is
Qn 7)
Clue 1
●Clue 1
●X-Y is the trade name for a rub manufactured and
distributed by Haw Par Healthcare in Singapore.
●It was originally developed in the 1870s by a herbalist,
Aw hu Kin, in Rangoon, Burma, who asked his sons
Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par on his deathbed to
perfect the Product.
●This is available in several varieties, the two best
known: Red and White , the white at a weaker dose for
a less intense "warming feeling."
Clue 2
●If the bottle you are holding has
BALSAM HARIMAU written in
Indonesian,what would you be holding?
Clue 3
●This vaporub also comes with a
disclaimer many a times saying
●"No animals were harmed in the making
of this product"
And the answer is
Qn 8)
Clue 1
●Nandlal Bose was also one of the leading
lights of the renaissance of art in India did the
graphics for this.
●Prem Behari Narain Raizada (Saxena), from
Delhi. He wrote this in his own hand, using a
flowing italic style in the best calligraphic
traditions.
Clue 2
●The first president was Sachidanand Sinha
●Frank Anthony represented the Anglo-Indian community, and the
Parsis were represented by H. P. Modi and R. K. Sidhwa.
●The Chairman of the Minorities Committee was Harendra Coomar
Mookerjee, Ari Bahadur Gururng represented the Gorkha
Community.
●Prominent jurists like Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer, B. R. _____,
Benegal Narsing Rau and K. M. Munshi Ganesh Mavlankar y.
●Sarojini Naidu, Hansa Mehta, Durgabai Deshmukh and Rajkumari
Amrit Kaur were important women members.
Clue 3
●It lays down the framework defining fundamental political
principles, establishing the structure, procedures, powers and
duties, of the government and spells out the fundamental rights,
directive principles and duties of citizens
●Being the supreme law of the country, every law enacted by the
government must conform to this
And the answer is
CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
Calligraphy by Prem
Behari Narain Raizda,
illuminated by Nand
Lal Bose.
Dehra Dun, India:
Survey of India
Offices, 1955.
Rare Book Collection,
Law Library (70.1)
