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ANSWERSTO ALLYOUR QUESTIONS
BRANDO BABA
1
What does the following painting titled 'Scenes from July 1830'
depict?
The White flag of the monarchy transformed into the Tricolore as
a result of the July Revolution, painting by Lon Cogniet
(1830).
2
"If we want peace on earth, we must make the effort to embody
peace with each step. Brandon Wilson's inspiring journey, told
beautifully in this book, is a living example of peacemaking." -
Cindy Sheehan
X is a non-fiction travelogue written by Brandon Wilson,
published in 2008. It is the true story about Wilson, an American,
and "mile", a 68-year old Frenchman, who set off in the spring of
2006 to hike the route taken by an army. Traveling simply with
backpacks and trusting in the kindness of strangers, the pair have
two goals: to carry a message of peace along a route historically
used for war, and to establish a pilgrimage path others might
follow regardless of nationality, culture and religion. Named to
honor ___ ____ originally tasked with aiding early travellers along
such a trail.
Their five-month journey leads them 2620 miles across eleven
countries and two continents toward Y. Give either X or Y.
Templar TrailJerusalem
3
Identify the location of this monument
Battle of StalingradVolgograd
4
Put fundae. Why was this photo taken outside social services
agency?
Whatsapp deal inked.Jan Koum used to stand in line here for
foodstamps.
5
First, X showed up intentionally late to the 8 AM
meeting.Second, he wore pajamas.Third, X walked to the front of the
room and presented a PowerPoint deck titled "The Top Ten Reasons
You Should Not Invest."
Some of those reasons:
"We have no revenue." "We will probably get sued by the music
industry." "We showed up at your office late in our pajamas."
"Because Y is involved." "We're only here because [a Sequoia
partner] told us to come."
Obviously, Sequoia did not invest in Wirehog.It never invested
in ______ either.
However it made $6.4 Billion on _______. Revenge?
Mark ZuckerbergSean Parker
6
If youve ever tried to recover lost data after accidentally
deleting a drive or maybe watched an episode of CSI, you might know
that with the right forensic tools, its sometimes possible to
retrieve data after it has been deleted. So you know keep that in
mind before putting any state secrets in your _____ :)
Founder Evan Spiegel explained that X is intended to counteract
the trend of users being compelled to manage an idealized online
identity of themselves, which he says has "taken all of the fun out
of communicating".
Research conducted in the UK has shown that, as of June 2013,
half of all 18 to 30-year-old respondents 67 percent had received
"inappropriate poses or gestures"
Snapchat
7
Fill in the blanks
MacGyver
8
An Olympic Sport from 2008, X began in the early 1970s when
children began racing on dirt tracks in southern California,
inspired by the motocross stars of the time.
The size and availability of the Schwinn Sting-Ray made them the
natural choice for these races, since they were easily customized
for better handling and performance.
The 1972 motorcycle racing documentary On Any Sunday is
generally credited with inspiring the movement nationally in the
United States
BMX
9
Who is this UNESCO World Heritage site dedicated to? Where is
it?
PandavasMahabalipuram
10
Identify this tune. (Part points for the movie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXtFRl1nSs4
Lara's ThemeDr. Zhivago
11
Fill in the Blanks
BlondieBlondes
12
Id this superhero. Criminally under-rated. Loves choco
cookies.
Martian ManhunterJ'onn J'onzz
13
Identify the Poet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha3V_87LvR0
Bahadur Shah 'Zafar'
14
Identify the Poet and the actor on stage singing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCC6tV8sgSM
Kannadasan
15
Pour peach puree into chilled flute, add gently sparkling
wine,Stir gently.
Identify the cocktail.
Bellini
16
Identify the Actor and the Role
Liam NeesonRob Roy
17
Identify the Brand and Type of bag
HermesBerkin
18
Identify the Man and his best friend
Kurt VonnegutLhasa Afso
19
Fill in the blanks and Explain what this list signifies
Shoaib Akhtar and Brett LeeFastest Recorded Delivery
20A noted Indian food writer, chef, best-selling cookbook author
and host of cooking shows. Identify.
Tarla Dalal
21Identify this amazing scientist. How has ACM commemorated
her?
Rear Adm. Grace Murray Hopper
The award goes to a computer professional who makes a single,
significant technical or service contribution at or before age
35.
22
Einstein said that he went to Princeton for the pleasure of
walking home with X
Kurt Gdel
23
IITMCSE Alumni Dr.Krishna Bharat created an early version of X
to keep himself abreast of latest information post 9-11. beta in
2002.
Google News
24
Fill in the blanks for X and for Y give the name of the movie.
ID van.
X
Y
The Mystery MachineDumb and DumberFord Econoline Van
25Fill in the Blanks
That's all folks!
THEME ROUND ONE
1
Capable of speech, speech recognition, facial recognition,
natural language processing, lip reading, art appreciation,
interpreting and reproducing emotional behaviours, reasoning, and
playing chess.
Often conjectured that the name was based on a one-letter shift
of X.
Denied vigorously by it's creator Dr. Y as : "utter nonsense!
[...] I thought that by now every intelligent person knew that it
is derived from Z
Dr. Y discovers that Z's crisis was caused by a programming
contradiction: constructed for "the accurate processing of
information without distortion or concealment", yet his orders
required him to keep the discovery of TMA-1 a secret for reasons of
national security.
This contradiction created a "Hofstadter-Moebius loop", reducing
Z to paranoia.
THE ANSWER
X : IBMY : Dr. ChandraZ : Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic
computer
2
Identify the movie X and the actor Y who plays Claude Lacombe, a
French government scientist in charge of UFO-related activities
THE ANSWER
X : Close Encounters of the Third KindY : Franois Truffaut
3
Identify the science fiction author (on the right) Mr.X
Popular films based on his works include Blade Runner, Total
Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Paycheck, Next,
Screamers, The Adjustment Bureau, Impostor.
THE ANSWER
X : Philip K. Dick
4
Identify the movie X and the author of the novel by the same
name Y
THE ANSWER
X : ContactY : Carl Sagan
5
THE ANSWER
X : Chewbacca@TheWookieeRoars
6
According to wikipedia (possible #fakefunda), What is the
significance of the movie in this trailer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCC6tV8sgSM
@Omie check out this brilliant adventures of Astronaut Anand and
the moon people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rl7Z7Q7rhA
THE ANSWER
Tamil-Hollywood Co-productionPossibly the first Science Fiction
Movie made in India
7
Put fundae on the significance of this clip to trekies?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg8_cKxJZJY
THE ANSWER
only person to play themselves in the Star Trek universe
8
X: Identify the movie and directorY: Identify the painter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcglyhUre4w
8
THE ANSWER
X: Solaris by Andrei TarkovskyY: Pieter Bruegel the Elder
THEME ROUND TWO
1
X: Identify the actor who plays Tommy DeVito in the originalY:
Identify the Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjfAAghkSB4
Original : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_DwZfyXAXI
Indian homage : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kW7ePZ2PyA
1
THE ANSWER
X: Joe PesciY: Goodfellas
2
Based on the true story of Joseph D. Pistone, an FBI undercover
agent who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family in New York City
during the 1970s, under the alias X
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS6zJ7IsJkM
2
THE ANSWER
X: Donnie Brasco
3
X : an Italian word, has now come to mean the head of a branch
of the mafia who commands a crew of soldiers and reports directly
to a boss or an underboss.
Y: What's in the box? #muchwisdom
3
THE ANSWER
X: CaporegimeY: Cannolli
4
One of the founders of Murder, Inc. and described as handsome
and charismatic, he became one of the first front-page-celebrity
gangsters. He was also a driving force behind the development of
the Las Vegas Strip. Starting with The Flamingo Hotel in 1946. He
would supply the gambling, the best liquor and food, and the
biggest entertainers at reasonable prices. He believed these
attractions would lure not only the high rollers, but thousands of
vacationers willing to lose $50 or $100.
LA Coroner's Report states the cause of his death as cerebral
hemorrhage from Gunshot Wounds of the head. While he was not shot
exactly through the eye (the eyeball would have been destroyed if
this had been the case), the bullet-through-the-eye style of
killing nevertheless became popular in Mafia lore and in movies,
and was called the "____ ______ special" after the character based
on him was killed in this manner in The Godfather.
Identify and Fill in the blanks.
THE ANSWER
'Bugsy' SeagalMoe Green Special
5
The first Mafia member to publicly acknowledge it's existence.
He is also the person who made ___ _____ (meaning "Our Thing") a
household name.
In October 1963, he testified before Arkansas Senator John L.
McClellan's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the U.S.
Senate Committee on Government Operations that the Mafia did
exist.
Although these disclosures never led directly to the prosecution
of any Mafia leaders, he was able to provide many details of its
history, operations and rituals, aiding in the solution of several
uncleared murders, as well as naming many members and the major
crime families. The mob was no longer invisible to the public.
A biography heavily influenced by those memoirs and by
interviews with journalist Peter Maas was published in 1968 forming
the basis for a later movie of the same title starring Charles
Bronson in the title role.
Identify and Fill in the blanks.
THE ANSWER
Joseph Valachi Cosa Nostra
6
The title of this book comes from an anecdote told to the author
Norman Mailer by a prizefighter named Roger Donahue:
Frank Costello, the Murder Inc. honcho, and his gorgeous
girlfriend greet three champion boxers in the Stork Club.
Costello demands that each, in turn, dance with the woman, and
each nervously complies. The last, Willie Pep, suggests that Mr.
Costello dance.
What was Costello's reply?
THE ANSWER
Tough Guys don't dance
7
"I talked to...(authentic gangsters and Gilly McKenzie)...about
what they meant and where they were on the body, what that said
about where they'd been, what their specialties were, what their
ethnic and geographical affiliations were," X says. "Basically
their history, their calling card, is their body."
The tattoos that he wore, according to the New York Daily News,
were so realistic that diners in a Russian restaurant in London
fell silent out of fear.
With one exception, the tattoos X wore were accurate for the
character he played. The crucifix on his chest is inappropriate for
a mob chauffeur, since it incorrectly indicates that he is a
"Prince Of Thieves" in the Russian Mafia. A few positions below a
"Godfather" within the Russian Mafia. Identify X. What movie?
THE ANSWER
Viggo MortensonEastern Promises
8
Identify the original movie and director this scene plays homage
to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOA9Ax1v30k
Original : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QsNXd57Ppw
THE ANSWER
On the waterfrontElia Kazan
ROUND THREE
DIFFERENTIAL SCORING
THEME +10
ROUND FOUR
1IDENTIFY AND CONNECT
THE ANSWER
Seven Samurai
2IDENTIFY THE MOVIEAND AUTHOR OF THE NOVEL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UV6HVMRmdk
THE ANSWER
Zorba the GreekNikos Kazantzakis
3CONNECT WITH ONE NAME
THE ANSWER
Sultana Daku
4The term dates back to about 1790 or 1898. It gained some
recognition during the British Gezira Scheme in the early to mid
20th century, when Sudanese labourers protested their relative
powerlessness by working lethargically, a form of protest known as
X. Connect with a Linklater movie.
THE ANSWER
Slacker
5
Connect:
Man of Law, Wife of Bath, Friar, Summoner, Clerk, Merchant,
Squire, Franklin, Physician, Pardoner, Shipman, Prioress, Monk, Nun
Priest, Second Nun, Canon Yeoman, Manciple, Parson
THE ANSWER
The Canterbury Tales
6
As a result of a long sequence of coincidences I entered the
programming profession officially on the first spring morning of
1952 and as far as I have been able to trace, I was the first
Dutchman to do so in my country.
in 1957, I married and Dutch marriage rites require you to state
your profession and I stated that I was a programmer. But the
municipal authorities of the town of Amsterdam did not accept it on
the grounds that there was no such profession. And, believe it or
not, but under the heading profession my marriage act shows the
ridiculous entry _____ _____!
Who and what is the entry
THE ANSWER
Edsger W. DijkstraTheoretical Physicist
7
Identify the designer and the strategic life simulation
series
THE ANSWER
Will WrightThe Sims
8
this flight attendant for Pan Am, based in Mumbai was murdered
while saving passengers from terrorists on board the hijacked Pan
Am Flight 73 on 5 September 1986.
Posthumously, she became the youngest recipient of India's
highest civilian award for bravery, the Ashok Chakra.
Identify.
THE ANSWER
Neerja Bhanot
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