QUIZ FINALS

QUIZ FINALSthe final frontier

Made by Utkarsh Jain Mehul arora Kunal Jain

ROUND 1: WARM UP

ROUND 1: WARM UPEach team can choose a question code of their choice; the last team will also have two choices. Questions will not pass.Flat scoring of 10 points. No negatives.

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1X who is a fictionalprivate investigatorstarring in a seriesby famous Writer and Director Satyajit Ray. Identify X.

Feluda

2This fictional Character has appeared in a total of 11 novels and 3 by Robert Ludlum and The rest 8 by Eric Van Lustbader. Identify

Jason Bourne

Dongri to Dubai, Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafiais a book authored byHussain Zaidiwho is a former investigative journalist. The book traces the evolution of theMumbaimafiafrom a group of thugs and smugglers to the present day mafia dons oforganized crime. Who is The Main focus Of this book?

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Dawood Ibrahim

Connect:- Omkara , William Shakespeare And Uranus. 4

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Othello. All the moons of Uranus are named after the characters from Othello, a play by Shakespeare. Omkara is the movie adaptation of Othello.

Xdisliked being called a detective. He preferred the term Satyanweshi, meaning seeker of truth. Unlike many other fictional detectives, X ages, marries, has a son, starts a publishing firm with his assistant-cum-chronicler Y.Identify X and Y

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X- Byomkesh BakshiY- Ajit

Scarecrowis the fifthnovel by X, and the third to feature the main character CaptainShane Schofield,USMC. It was released in 2003. Identify X6

Matthew Riley

Behind every great fortune, there is a crime,Is the opening quote of?7

The Godfather

ROUND 2:

ROUND 2: Each team can choose a question code of their choice; the last team will also have two choices. Questions will pass clockwise.Flat scoring of 10 points. No negatives.

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1Xs original story is established in Vengeance of X. X was born in the fictional Caribbean republic of Santa Prisca in a prison called Pena Dura. In Prison he read as many books he could , learnt to fight , and to speak Portuguese , Spanish , English and Latin . He committed his first murder at the age of 8. IGN lists him at #34 in comic book villains of all time . Identify X

2Who is The most famous character created by William S. Baring-Gould?

Sherrinford HolmesSherrinford Holmesis a hypothetical elder brother ofSherlock HolmesandMycroft Holmes. His name is taken from early notes as one of those considered byArthur Conan Doyle for his detective hero before settling on "Sherlock Holmes".

3Connect: Julian, Dick, Anne, Georgina and their dog Timmy

Famous 5

4X is an English novelist and screenwriter specializing in mystery and suspense.His work for adults includes the novel and play Mindgame, and two Sherlock Holmes novels The House of Silk and Y.He is the most recent author chosen to write a Z novel by the Ian Fleming estate. Identify X, Y and Z

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X- Anthony Horowitz, Y- Moriarty, Z- James Bond

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This book by Agatha Christie is the last book of the series but was written long before the the end because of the World War. Christie feared that if she died in the war, she wont be able to give the perfect ending to the series, and hence wrote the book. After this, she wrote her will and added that the book be released after her death.Identify the book and the famous character.

Character- PoirotBook- Curtains:Poirot's Last Case

6Schindlers List is an epic drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and scripted by Steve Zaillian. It is based on a novel by Thomas Keneally. Name the novel.

Schindlers Ark

Schindler's Ark(released in America asSchindler's List) is aBooker Prize-winning novel published in 1982 by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally, which was later adapted into the highly successful movieSchindler's Listdirected bySteven Spielberg.

7Identify X. X was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and his tales for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and to date he remains its youngest recipient. Among other honours, he was sounded on several occasions for a knighthood, which he declined.

Rudyard Kipling

ROUND 3:FAMOUS PERSONALIES

ROUND 3: Visual RoundEach team can choose a question code of their choice; the last team will also have two choices. Questions will pass clockwise.Flat scoring of 10 points. No negatives.

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1Identify the book and its significance

Gutenburg Bible.First printed book

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Identify the famous author .

Roald Dahl

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What is this place, and what piece of fiction is set here?

Chateau d'If;The Count of Monte Cristo.

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This is Lord Alfred Tennyson above. The question is, who took the picture?

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Lewis Caroll

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Identify the personality

Jhumpa Lahiri

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This noble laureate in literature died recently. Identify the author

Gunter Grass

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Identify the map shown

Alagasia world .Eragon series

ROUND 4

ROUND 4Each team can choose a question code of their choice; the last team will also have two choices. Questions will pass anticlockwise.Flat scoring of 10 points. No negatives.

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1Name the book which was the inspiration behind the Lord of The Rings according to J.R.R. Tolkien?

The Bible

2________ is a Persian word and it was given as an honorary title to a person who has achieved a mastery over languages , especially in British India. It became a surname to those people whose ancestors had received this title.Which Indian author who is arguably one of the famous , holds this title ?

Munshi Premchand

3Identify the famous character from the extract of his (unofficial) blog:- This is what I do:1. I observe everything.2. From what I observe, I infer everything.3. When I've eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Sherlock Holmes

4Arsne Lupin vs. Xis a collection of two adventures ofArsne Lupin, written byMaurice Leblanc. These adventures feature a match of wits between Lupin and X, a transparent reference toY. ID X and Y

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X- Herlock SholmesY- Sherlock Holmes

5Ho Chi Minh City in the summer. Sweltering by anyones standards. Needless to say , X would not have been willing to put up with such discomfort if something extremely important had not been at stake. Important to the plan.

These are the first lines of which book? Also identify X.

Artemis Fowl

6 The X comic series was started by Y in attempt to teach Indian children about their cultural heritage . He was shocked that Indian students could answer questions on Greek and Roman mythology , but were ignorant of their own mythology and folklore .Identify X and Y.

X Amar Chitra KathaY Anant Pai.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged , that a single man in possession of a good fortune , must be in want of a wife.

Which Novel does the following quote comes from?

Pride and Prejudice.

ROUND 5: Buzzzzz

ROUND 5: BuzzzzzThis is an open roundQuestions will not passFlat scoring of 10 points. No negatives.

Where is the Sherlock Holmes museum located?

221B Baker Street, London. :o

X is a 3 word Arabic phrase which refers to the act of manifesting , existing or being. In the Quran , Allah commands the universe to be and it is. Which 2011 popular sufi song attributes its title from the phase ?

Kun Faya Kun

In Latin this word means a female animal used for breeding . In Geology its is the natural material surrounding a metal or gem. In biology it is the intercellular substance of a tissue .The commonest use of the word , however is in Mathematics. Also appearing the in the title of a film with superb special effects , which word ?

(THE) Matrix

Connect: Star Wars Ep. 5(1), Star Wars(2), Se7en(3), Raiders of the Lost Ark(4), Django Unchained(9)

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Highest rated movies adapted from comics on IMDb.

If you were reading a popular book whose title translated to My fight in English , chances are youd be reading this book ?

Mein Kamf

Which 1954 novel has been adapted thrice into Hollywood movies the latest movie sharing its name with the novel itself? The previous two movies are The Last Man on Earth and The Omega Man.

I am Legend (By Richard Matheson)

In the movie The Hobbit: An expected journey, Gandalf is asked by Bilbo How many wizards are there ? . He says there are five, naming himself, Saruman, and Radagast, then saying he cant remember the names of the other two. Their names, appear in the books but still not revealed in the movie. What are their names ?

Alatar and Pallando

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