PROPAGANDA-0’15

FINALE

Teams can pounce for +10/-10. Infinite Bounce. Each question carries 10 marks.

Q1. X is Y’s autobiography.

Due to public interest X was prepared for publication in secret by Doubleday.

Relatives of Doubleday’s employees were hired as couriers, to deliver portions of the book from the company's head office in Manhattan to the printing plant in Fairfield, Pennsylvania. At the printing plant, the book was given the code name "Neil Armstrong.”

Id X and Y.

ANS. MJ’S MOONWALK

Q2. There is a vegetarian restaurant in Gurgaon’s Fun Republic Cineplex which serves a dish called the “Sultan of Multan Ki Tikdi”.

The Sultan of Multan is basically a fiery curry

made with Tikdi which is a kind of papad.

Who owns the restaurant and what is the price of the dish?

ANS. X = VIRENDAR SEHWAG Y = 309

Q3. Ramraj Cottons has introduced Gen Next dhotis catering to the non traditional user base, ie teens and early adults. These dhotis have 2 innovations:

1. To cater to people of all waist sizes and ensure ease of use.

2. For the convenience of a certain lifestyle change in youngsters.

What are these innovations?

Q4. Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom was an American political economist whose work was associated with the New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy.

Her work focused on how humans interact with ecosystems

to maintain long-term sustainable resource yields. Common pool resources include many forests, fisheries, oil fields, grazing lands, and irrigation systems.

All this maybe fascinating to others, but why does she interest quiz lovers like us?

(Image in next slide)

Ans. She is the only lady to have her photo

featured at the Economics department of Pondicherry University.

Only women to have ever won the

Sveridges Rigsbank Prize or the Economics Nobel.

Q5.WHAT SEEMINGLY UNLIKELY PAIR OF FOODS HAVE BEEN COMBINED TO LAUNCH THIS PRODUCT BY A LEADING AMERICAN FAST FOOD CHAIN?

ANS. BIRYANI AND PIZZA.

6) This is a song called Teardrops by a

band called Massive Attack. Where else would you have heard it?

ANS.

7)What are these people smiling so much about? (Image follows)

Ans. They are preparing for the colonization of mars, in Hawaii, in isolation for over a year.

8) The Devotion of Suspect X is a 2005 novel by Keigo

Higashino, the third in his Detective Galileo series and is his most acclaimed work thus far. The novel won him numerous awards, including the 134th Naoki Prize, which is a highly regarded award in Japan.

It was adapted into a Malayalam movie which was later remade into hindi as well.

Which movie? (IMAGE follows)

ANS.

9) Born Aliaume Damala Badara X

Thiam to Mor Thiam, a Senegalese musician. He learned to play five instruments, including drums, guitar and djembe. He has sung songs in English, Hindi, Tamil and Spanish.

Lady Gaga and T-Pain were given their chance at fame by him.

Ans. Akon

10) Name the only component of the Rolls

Royce sourced from India.

ANS. Malabar Wood.

ROUND 2: WHO LIVES WHERE? Written round. ID the owner of the residence. +10/0

1) 10, Downing Street

2) 1313, Wedfoot Walk, Duckberg.

3) X Mansion,890 Fifth Avenue,

Manhattan, New York City. Clue in next slide

4) 495 Grove Street, Manhattan, New

York.

5) 124, Conch Street, Bikini Bottom.

6) 2o, Ingram street, Forest Hills, Queens.

7) 1600, Pennsylvania Avenue.

8) 742, Evergreen Terrace, Springfield.

9) 10880, Malibu Point, Florida.

10) No. 4, Privet Drive, Little Whinging,

Surrey.

ANS. 1)10, Downing Street –PM of England 2) 1313, Wedfoot Walk, Duckberg – Donald Duck. 3)X Mansion,890 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City-

Avengers. 4)495 Grove Street, Manhattan, New York – Friends( Monica,

Chandler, Joey and Rachel). 5) 124, Conch Street, Bikini Bottom-Spongebob Squarepants. 6) 2o, Ingram street, Forest Hills, Queens-Peter Parker 7) 1600, Pennsylvania Avenue- President of the United States. 8) 742, Evergreen Terrace, Springfield- The Simpsons. 9) 10880, Malibu Point, Florida- Tony Stark 10) No. 4, Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey- The Dursleys or

Harry Potter.

ROUND 3: ANTI- CLOCKWISE Infinite Bounce. Each question carries 10 marks. Teams can pounce for +10/-10

1) "Atoms for Peace" was the

title of a speech delivered by U.S. President ------- to the UN General Assembly on 8 December 1953,with some influence from Albert Einstein, and he was attempting to convey a spirit of comfort to a terrified world that the horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would not be experienced again. This is often referred as the origin of IAEA.

DWIGHT D EISENHOWER

2) X is something marinated in spices and yogurt, that is then baked

in a tandoor oven, and served in a masala (spice mix) sauce. A tomato and coriander sauce is common, but there is no standard recipe for X. The sauce usually includes tomatoes (frequently as purée), cream, coconut cream and various spices.

One claim recounts how a chef, Ali Ahmed Aslam, proprietor of the Shish Mahal restaurant in the west end of Glasgow, invented X by improvising a sauce made from yogurt, cream and spices.

X is also the National dish of UK. It is referred to as CTM there.

Id X.

Chicken Tikka Masala.

3)

Died due to cancer on 3rd February 1969. His funeral had the highest number of attendees until then, with an estimated 15 million people attending, as registered by the Guinness Book of Records. The place where his mortal remains where buried was renamed in his honor.

Id.

CN Annadurai.

4) The first X were made in Italy in about 1286..

According to a sermon on February 23, 1306, by the Dominican friar Giordana da Pisa: “It is not years since it was found the art of making X which corrects the problem and it is a short time that this new art, never before extant was discovered... I saw the one who discovered and practiced it and I talked to him.”

It was not clear when and where the technology was invented. It has been said that Marco Polo reported seeing many X in China as early as 1275.

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ANS. SPECTACLES.

5) These posters of

Spiderman were recalled in 2001. And now they are collectors items. What made them recall it?

They had the twin towers as a reflection.

6) 1. move or cause to move in a specified direction 2. go past or across; leave behind or on one side in 3. proceeding: 4. (of time or a point in time) elapse; go by: 5. an act or instance of moving past or through something 6. a successful completion of an examination or course 7. a card, ticket, or permit giving authorization for the

holder to enter or have access to a place, form of transportation, or event

Give Funda.

ANS. PASS

7) This company’s logo features a glass

and a half of milk reflecting the claim of the company that it takes 1500ml of milk to produce 200gms of their flagship product.

Id the product as well as the company.

8) X was discovered in Bombay by Dr. YM

Bhende in1952. Medically, it was known as the Hh

Antigen System. X was suddenly put in the limelight

because of the Vidya Balan starrer Kahani.

Ans. Bombay Blood Group.

9) What nickname was

given to the Slovenian National team because of the ‘away jersey’ that debuted at the 2010 World Cup. It was given because of its similarities to a fictional comic character.

Charlie Browns.

10) Charminar was built

to commemorate the elimination of a plague epidemic from Hyderabad in 1591 AD. On the entrance of the Charminar is inscribed an animal. Which animal?

Cat.

ROUND 4: THEME

1) ID THE MOVIE FROM THIS FAMOUS SCENE.

ANS. WHATS EATING GILBERT GRAPE?

2) ID THE MOVIE FROM ITS MINIMALIST POSTER.

ANS.

3) X is a term used for something mined in a war zone and

sold to finance an insurgency, an invading army's war efforts, or a warlord's activity. The term is used to highlight the negative consequences of the ___________ trade in certain areas, or to label an individual ___________ as having come from such an area.

_________ mined from Angola, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Republic of Congo, Liberia are given this label called X.

Id X.

Ans. Blood Diamond.

X is an American author, motivational speaker, and former stockbroker who pleaded guilty to fraud and related crimes in connection with stock market manipulation and running a boiler room as part of a penny stock scam at his company, Stratton Oakmont.

He spent 22 months in prison as part of an agreement under which he gave testimony against numerous partners and subordinates in his fraud scheme.

At a motivational talk that he delivered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) on May 19, 2014, X stated to the audience:

“I got greedy.... Greed is not good. Ambition is good, passion is good. Passion prospers. My goal is to give more than I get, that’s a sustainable form of success.... Ninety-five percent of the business was legitimate.... It was all brokerage firm issues. It was all legitimate, nothing to do with liquidating stocks.”

ANS. JORDAN BELFORT.

PUT FUNDA.

ANS. MOST NUMBER OF GRAMMY NOMINATIONS WITHOUT A WIN.

AND NOW FOR THE THEME!!