What We Talk About When We Talk About Stuff : The News-Makers Quiz Finals

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WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT STUFFFINALSBy Tamal Dutta

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSFinals RulesThe Finals consist of five rounds :- One Long Visual Connect,- Two Written Rounds,- Two Limited Pounce Rounds.Rules of every round will be explained before the start of that corresponding round.Please keep your phones in silent mode.It is a long quiz. Hope you had your lunch!

Best of luck to the finalists!

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SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSUnbowed, Unbent, Unbroken.Long Visual Connect Round.Points are mentioned on each slide.All teams are allowed to take multiple attempts at the answer, but only one attempt for a particular slide.Be careful as there are negatives as expected.The clues form an exhaustive list.

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SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSAnswers Follow.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSBeenie Man, Bounty Killer.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSMachel Montano, Bunji Garlin.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSWendy Fitzwilliam, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSBarrack Obama, Nelson Mandela.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSMichael Jordan, Serena Williams.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSUsain Bolt, Brian Lara.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSKieron Pollard, Chris Gayle.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSDwayne Bravo.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSChampion by DJ Bravo.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSScores?

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSRound II

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSWhat is Dead May Never Die.Written Round.Eight Questions on famous people who have passed away in 2015-16.Each answer is worth 5 points.10 points for getting all correct. Please number your answers correctly.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 1.In the book Angels and Demons, which real-life person did Robert Langdon describe as The Tau Cross With Intersecting Hermaphroditic Ankh?

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 2.Who is playing the janitor in this video?

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 3.X has been nominated twice for the MTV India Youth Icon of the Year Award. In 2003, Anil Ambani was given the award over him. In 2006, M. S. Dhoni was given the same over him.Who is X?

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 4.From the first version of VLC to 1.0, VLC codenames were based on characters in Goldeneye as the movie was one of the first movies that was used during the original development phase to test VLC. Starting from 1.1.x, VLC codenames have been based on characters from X:1.1.xThe Luggage2.0.xTwoflower2.1.xRincewind2.2.xWeatherwaxVLC 2.2.1 was named Y, after the author of X, as it was the first release after Y's death.Identify Y.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 5.Director and actor Albert Brooks asked X to play the part of his mother Beatrice Henderson in the movie Mother in 1996. According to reports, X really wanted to come out of her acting retirement to play the role, but declined because she could not bear to be away from her husband who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease at that time. The role eventually went to Debbie Reynolds.Who is X?

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SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 7.The song is called Oei Oei Oei (Dat Was Me Weer Een Loei).Identify the singer.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 8.X has started in many TV shows including House of Cards, Sleepy Hollow, The Mindy Project and Mr. Robot.Who is her father?

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SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 1.In the book Angels and Demons, which real-life person did Robert Langdon describe as The Tau Cross With Intersecting Hermaphroditic Ankh?

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSThe Artist Formerly Known As Prince.

Did anyone draw the symbol instead?

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 2.Who is playing the janitor in this video?

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSWes Craven.

The Movie is Scream.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 3.X has been nominated twice for the MTV India Youth Icon of the Year Award. In 2003, Anil Ambani was given the award over him. In 2006, M. S. Dhoni was given the same over him.Who is X?

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSA. P. J. Abdul Kalam Azad.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 4.From the first version of VLC to 1.0, VLC codenames were based on characters in Goldeneye as the movie was one of the first movies that was used during the original development phase to test VLC. Starting from 1.1.x, VLC codenames have been based on characters from X:1.1.xThe Luggage2.0.xTwoflower2.1.xRincewind2.2.xWeatherwaxVLC 2.2.1 was named Y, after the author of X, as it was the first release after Y's death.Identify Y.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSTerry Pratchett.

The Book Series is Discworld.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 5.Director and actor Albert Brooks asked X to play the part of his mother Beatrice Henderson in the movie Mother in 1996. According to reports, X really wanted to come out of her acting retirement to play the role, but declined because she could not bear to be away from her husband who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease at that time. The role eventually went to Debbie Reynolds.Who is X?

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSNancy Reagan.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 6.

Connect.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKS Suchitra Bhattacharya.

Movies Based on her Stories/Original Screenplays.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 7.The song is called Oei Oei Oei (Dat Was Me Weer Een Loei).Identify the singer.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSJohan Cryuff.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 8.X has started in many TV shows including House of Cards, Sleepy Hollow, The Mindy Project and Mr. Robot.Who is her father?

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSSaeed Jaffrey.

The Actress is Sakina Jaffrey.


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSRound III

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSOur Blades Are Sharp.Clockwise Bounce and Pounce Round with Three Strikes Rule.10 points for every correct answer on both Pounce and Bounce.No negatives for any wrong answers on either Pounce or Bounce.A wrong answer on Pounce will be taken as a Strike.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 1.Jodee Berry used to work as a waitress in a Hooters restaurant in Florida when she took part in a beer-sales competition in the early 2000s. The big prize in the competition was supposed to be a Toyota, or so did Jodee think as the word was only spoken and never actually spelled. Jodee won the contest and was happily expecting to see her brand new car when she was led blindfolded to the parking lot. She was shocked when she realized that the Toyota was actually a X and it was all part of an April Fools Joke that the restaurant had played on her.Jodee did not find it funny and she quit her job and sued Hooters for damages. The restaurant agreed to settle for an undisclosed sum of money but, according to rumours, it was more than enough to buy a real Toyota.What was she given instead of a Toyota?

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SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSToy Yoda.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 2.American journalist David Brooks wrote an article in The New York Times in January 2015, arguing that the magazine X's humour is childish. He also criticised many of those in America who were ostensibly voicing support for free speech, noting that the material that was published in X, if it was published in an American university newspaper instead, then the editors would have been accused of hate speech and the university would have cut financing and shut them down. What was the article called?


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSI am Not Charlie.

As opposed to Je Suis Charlie.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 3.Sonny Whiting,Dean Gillen,Samet Hyuseinov,Alexander Horvath,Matiouze Royer,Andrzej Soldra,Kerry Hope.Connect.


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSVijender Singhs Professional Boxing Opponents.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 4.X was unable to walk but went on a world tour by hitchhiking. X asked people to be picked up and carried to wherever they are going. In July-August 2014, X hitchhiked across Canada from the Institute for Applied Creativity at NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia to Victoria, British Columbia. In February 2015, X hitchhiked around Germany. All of X's co-travellers said X was very chatty. X's remarkable story caught the attention of social media. X received best wishes from all over the globe.X attempted to cross the US in July 2015. But X was found decapitated in Philadelphia within the first two weeks of the journey. Huffington Post wrote an article about the incident titled, Good Job, America. You Killed X.Who is X? Or, why did X receive so much media attention?


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSHitchBot.

HitchBot was a Hitchhiking Robot.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 5.Edward Snowden once said :It is clear that the CIA was trying to keep away the documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and that is a serious constitutional concern. But it is equally if not more concerning that we are seeing another X Effect, where an elected official does not care at all that the rights of millions of ordinary citizens are violated by our spies, but suddenly it is a scandal when a politician finds out the same thing happens to them.What is the term that was coined by Edward Snowden?


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSThe Merkel Effect.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 6.After the Narada sting operation came to the limelight, many TMC leaders started providing their defence against the sting. In one such case, MLA Subhrangshu Roy, son of Mukul Roy, suggested that the video has been doctored and cited the example of a song from a 2007 film where he said the similar technology had been used. This song also happened to be the first song to be the picturised on the actress featured in it.Which song?


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSDhoom Taana.

From Om Shanti Om.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 7.After the series X premiered on Netflix without an Audio Description option, a certain group of fans wrote a petition to the website asking them to add the same. Netflix did listen to their request and X became the first Netflix series to have an Audio Description option. Since then, Netflix has started adding the feature for other shows too.Identify X.Who demanded this feature? Or, why was such a feature demanded?


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSDaredevil.Blind Fans Demanded this Feature.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 8.In June 2013, documentary filmmaker Jennifer Nelson filed a suit in the federal court of New York against Warner/Chappell after she had to pay $1500 to secure the rights to the song X as part of a documentary she was making about the song. In September 2015, it was ruled that the Warner/Chappell copyright claim over the lyrics was invalid. The copyright they held applied only to a specific piano arrangement of the song, not the lyrics or the melody. Prior to this, Warner/Chappell had been earning $2 million a year licensing the song for commercial use.In April 2016, the lawyers of the above lawsuit filed a similar lawsuit regarding the song Y.Identify X and Y.


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSHappy Birthday to You.We Shall Overcome.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 9.In January 2016, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin-Abdullah al-Sheikh, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia declared X as Haram and asked for its ban, claiming that it spreads enmity and hatred. He said that it is a waste of time and an opportunity to squander money and is a work of Satan. He compared it to Maisir which is forbidden by the Quran.What is X?


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSChess.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 10.This promotional poster for the 2015 film Legend received a lot of criticism from the press, especially from The Guardian. Benjamin Lee of The Guardian wrote While I applaud the chutzpah in this case, audiences do need to be wary of false advertising. He called the poster a maddeningly brilliant promotional sleight of hand while also blaming it for outright fabrication.What is the issue with the poster?[Poster on the Next Slide.]

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 10 (Image).


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSThe Use of The Guardians Two-Star Rating.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 11.There are two stories behind the origin of the phrase X of Y:Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme were in a bar watching a man dance to the song Wind of Change by the Scorpions. The man yelled, "This is Y, dude!", to which Homme replied, No it's not. This is like the X of Y. When a friend of Josh Homme played a song by the Polish band Vader and made a claim that the song was a Y song, Homme referred to Vader as the X of Y. After hearing this, Hughes wondered what a cross between X and Y would sound like.Identify X of Y.


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSThe Eagles of Death Metal.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 12.Doctors at the University Hospital of Wales are studying a new method to resuscitate new-born babies. For this purpose, they have visited the Headquarters of X in Oxfordshire to observe how team of around 20 people can work so seamlessly. They have already started adopting some new techniques including streamlining the resuscitation trolley, using hand signals, doing video analysis of their performance and mapping the floor area like any __ ______.What is the new technique based on?


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSF1 Pit Stops.

X Williams.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 13.In September 2015, ABC made a blunder in a promotional video advertising a Nightline interview with X. Instead of showing X in the video, they showed Y. Ironically, the story called How X Dealt With Race Issues dealt with the racial bullying X faced while attending school in the US and the prejudice X encountered throughout X's life.Both X's and Y's initial fame came through the same achievement. Y achieved it in 1999, while X in 2000.Identify X and Y.


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSPriyanka Chopra.Yukta Mookhey.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 14.Almost two million Euros were donated for this crowd-funding project started by Thom Feeney, a Londoner, which was 0.12% of the total amount asked. Feeney said that he received repeated questions from everyone asking Is this a joke?, but was overwhelmed by the response.WatchMojo.com placed it at number 5 in The Top 10 Craziest Crowdfunding Projects of All-Time list.What was the crowdfunding project about?


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSGreece Bailout Fund.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 15.At the end of the year 2015, Goal.com did an audience poll for the X Award. The nominees for the award included :Kyle Beckerman, Marouane Fellaini, David Luiz, Neymar, Andrea Pirlo, Paul Pogba and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang among others.Even though Cristiano Ronaldo lost the Ballon d'Or to Lionel Messi, he won the X Award with 24% of the audience voting for him.What is X?


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSSalon dOr.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 16.This sketch from Key and Peele in early 2012 is now famous for making something popular. But it gained popularity only after Barrack Obama's appearance in Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in April 2012. One of the earliest instances of this was seen in Eddie Murphys 1983 stand-up special Delirious.What am I talking about?[Video on the Next Slide.]

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SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSThe Mic Drop.


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SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSSet Down Our Deeds.

Written Round.Eight Visual Questions on people on whom biographical films have released in 2015-16 or will release later in 2016.Identifying the person shall fetch you 4 points. Identifying the movie shall fetch you 4 points. Identifying both shall fetch you 8 points.Hints will be available if 6 or more teams agree.10 points for getting all correct. Please number your answers correctly.


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Rajeev Masand said that the movie never takes flight.Hint

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSShivkar Bapuji Talpade.Hawaizaada.


The name of the film refers to a structure in Glienicke, which connects Potsdam with Berlin.Hint

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSRudolf Abel / Vilyam Fisher.Bridge of Spies.


HintIn the chapter Commander Sabarmati's Baton in Midnight's Children, the character of Commander Sabarmati was based on this person.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSKawas Manekshaw Nanavati.Rustom.


HintThe film has been banned in Qatar on grounds of moral depravity and also in the UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and Malaysia.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSEinar Wegener / Lili Elbe / Lily Elvenes.The Danish Girl.


HintThe alumnus of a famous college wrote a petition asking the name of the movie to be changed. The plea was subsequently rejected.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSShrinivas Ramachandra Siras.Aligarh.


HintThe film was dedicated to the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSPhilippe Petit.The Walk.


HintAccording to the director of the film, What is most astonishing is that he never gave up and proved that, if given equal opportunity, daughters are no less than sons.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSMahavir Singh Phogat.Dangal.


HintThe film's title serves a dual purpose, giving the two main themes it deals with.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSJesse Owens.Race.


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSRound V

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSSo End Our Foes.Anti-Clockwise Bounce and Pounce Round with Three Strikes Rule.10 points for every correct answer on both Pounce and Bounce.No negatives for any wrong answers on either Pounce or Bounce.A wrong answer on Pounce will be taken as a Strike.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 1.In February 2015, Sarah Ericsson was celebrating her 21st birthday in Sweden. As a part of decorations, her boyfriend, Fabian Akesson, hung 21-shaped balloons in her apartment. Seeing this from outside, a passer-by called the police. This led to the Swedish police raiding her apartment on her birthday.Why did Sarah face such harassment?


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKS21 in her Apartment = IS to the Passer-by.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 2.This is an art project by Michael Mandiberg. It was first shown at the From Aaaaa! to ZZZap! exhibition, before its opening at the Denny Gallery in New York. Michael made an index thanking 7.5 million people individually who have contributed to the project. Michael said that his motivation behind the project was to answer the question, How big is it?. "It" turned to be too be indeed massive as his art project could cover only 1.42% of the total amount.What is the project called?[Image of the Art Project on the Next Slide.]



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SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 3.While the tax evasion trial was being conducted in Barcelona against Messi in June 2016, a lot of people had gathered outside the court. While most applauded Messi, some onlookers jeered and criticised the player. One of the onlookers shouted Thief! as Messi left the court, while another said, Go play for X.According to economist Adolfo Linares, The image of X has been affected in an unfair manner and have come to light not as the result of an investigation, but of a hack.Identify X.


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSPanama.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 4.This domain name was proposed in ICANN's New Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Program, and became available to the general public in June 2014. In November 2015, it reached 1.5 million domain name registrations, possibly boosted in part by X's decision to use the domain name for its corporate website. In January 2016, it quickly became the sixth most registered domain name on the Internet.Which domain name?Identify X.


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKS.xyzAlphabet.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 5.After an interview of Ruby Ray with a news channel became viral on social networking sites recently, Times of India brought out an article about Ruby, and others of her kind, and called her The ________ ________ of Bihar.The ________ ________ is also the name of a bestselling novel by a British author that portrays that the life of Florentyna Kane from her early childhood to her ascension to the position of President of the US. Fill in the blanks.Why was she called so?


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSProdigal Daughter.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 6.Son of Saul won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2016. The acceptance speech by director Lazlo Nemes was followed by Richard Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. This was noted by many people around the globe as a major faux pas. Sara Morrison tweeted, I'm still laughing that they played Wagner after Son of Saul won. Literally the worst possible choice there. Others tied it to the protests about the lack of African Americans among the nominees.Why was this incident a faux pas on the part of the Academy?


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSSon of Saul = Movie about the Holocaust.Wagner = Allegedly Hitlers Favourite Composer.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 7.On 26th May this year, when the 87-year old Patty Ris was dining in her Cincinnati nursing home, she started choking on a large piece of meat. According to an onlooker, She started gasping and her face started changing.A 96-year old man, resident of the same nursing home, who was sitting next to her, came to her aid and saved her life.She later wrote him a Thank You note saying : God put me in that seat next to you, because I was gone, I could not breathe."Why was this incident in the news?


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSFirst Time the Heimlich Manoeuvre was Performed by Henry Heimlich to Save a Person.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 8.Georges Aad is a junior physicist working at CERN in Switzerland. Newspapers have called him the Most Premier Name in Published Physics Research and the Most Significant Name in Particle Physics. He has been a part of many paper publications, most of which were in collaboration with many other scientists. And even though he was not the main contributor in most of these papers, he is the one who has hogged the media limelight.This happened after CERN made a certain change in the rules for publishing new papers due to the increasing number of contributors.What makes Georges Aad "the Most Significant Name in Particle Physics"?


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSMost Number of First Authorships by a Scientist.

All Papers that he Contributes to get Published as "G. Aad et al".

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 9.Tonja B. Carter was the lawyer for X. In July 2015, when she learnt about a recipe book, Y, being sold by a small museum inside the old courthouse at the centre of Monroeville, Alabama, she complained to Greg Norris, one of the most powerful officials of Monroeville, and had all 282 copies of Y wheeled over to her law office.In 2013, X had sued the museum for selling too many items that use X 's trademark.Y sounds similar to something that X owns the copyright of.Identify X and Y.


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSHarper Lee.To Fill A Mockingbird.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 10.The creators of X have launched a new, more cost-effective version of X. They did so to shrink X so that they can attract new business. The older version of X has separate air pockets, while the newer version has a series of interconnected ones so that air can move freely one pocket to another inside X.This move has triggered a massive backlash from fans of X on social media. Cynthe Crawford tweeted:No way!! Don't they know, that every adult, turns into a child, just at the sight of X???Identify X.How is the new version of X different?


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSBubble Wrap.It does not Pop.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 11.The debut episode of :DRYVRS, a new web series created by Jack Dishel, premiered in December 2015, and was called Just Me in the House By Myself. In the episode, an Uber-like cab ride goes horribly wrong after Dishel is picked up by an agitated 35-year-old man named Kevin, played by X. The cracked dude behind the wheel immediately starts worrying his passenger by telling he story of how his family's trip to Paris when he was the cutest f***ing 8-year-old in the universe and the events that followed traumatised him as a kid. I still have nightmares about this bald weirdo dude chasing me around talking like Yosemite Sam, a shaking Kevin confesses between cigarette drags.The audience also gets to see his fragile state of mind as the episode takes a dark, sadistic and gruesome final twist.Who is X?


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSMacaulay Culkin.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 12.After the Central Board of Film Certification banned Udta Punjab, Farhan Akhtar tweeted:Power is the most dangerous addiction of all and someone in the CBFC seems to be tripping hard on X.X is a sarcastic modification of the name of a song about which one of the writers of the song once said :It was not about ___. Because otherwise it would have been called LITSWD. Because the initials are not ___.Identify X.


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSLassi in the Sky with Diamonds.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 13.This 1984 video game called Blastar was sold to the magazine PC and Office Technology for $500. The mission of the game is to destroy the alien freighters carrying deadly Hydrogen bombs and status beam machines. It is mostly a mix of Space Invaders and Asteroid, though it is much more basic. There is never more than two ships on the screen, there are few sound effects and it really has no ending.Though it looks unimpressive, Tomas Lloret Llinares, a software engineer at Google, took the original code and rebuilt the game to work in HTML5.What is the reason for such buzz around this game?[Screenshot from Blastar on the Next Slide.]



SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSElon Musk Created and Sold it when he was 12.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 14.Amnesty International Australia launched a campaign on International Womens Day to raise awareness about forced marriages. Amnesty shared images illustrating that oppressed women around the world still are not able to make important choices about their lives, the kinds of choices that many of us take for granted.What platform was used by Amnesty for this campaign?[The Next Slide shows Some of the Images Shared by Amnesty.]



SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSTinder.


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 15.Facebook:

X:

Identify X.And connect.


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSSnapchat.Companies Acquired for Real-Time Facial Filtering in Videos.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSQuestion 16.I saw the pictures as well and obviously sometimes you do things subconsciously. It happened and I am sorry. It was adrenaline and concentration. I will try to behave differently in the future.My fashion sense is not being flamboyant but well dressed. I am not dashing fashion-oriented because I have to go with what suits my age. But I like to dress up smartly and well.Two quotes from people who have in news in June 2016.Identify both.


SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSJoachim Lw.Chetan Chauhan.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSFinal Scores?

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSThank You All for Showing Up!Stay Tuned for Gandi Baat Do-Bara.

SPONSOR LIST IF ANY| VOTE OF THANKSHint to Question 1.

Rajeev Masand said that the movie never takes flight.Back



The name of the film refers to a structure in Glienicke, which connects Potsdam with Berlin.Back



BackIn the chapter Commander Sabarmati's Baton in Midnight's Children, the character of Commander Sabarmati was based on this person.



BackThe film has been banned in Qatar on grounds of moral depravity and also in the UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and Malaysia.



BackThe alumnus of a famous college wrote a petition asking the name of the movie to be changed. The plea was subsequently rejected.



BackThe film was dedicated to the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks.



BackAccording to the director of the film, What is most astonishing is that he never gave up and proved that, if given equal opportunity, daughters are no less than sons.



BackThe film's title serves a dual purpose, giving the two main themes it deals with.


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