Rounds

• Write Bros.• Clockwise : Infinite Pounce• Anti Clockwise : Infinite Pounce• List it

Write Bros.

Rules

• 6 People• Identify them• +10 for each correct• No negative marking

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Clockwise : Infinite Pounce

Rules

• 12 Questions• Pounce : +10/-5• Bounce : +10/0

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• Japan was the United State’s main source of silk, but trade relations were breaking down in the early 1930s. In 1935, Wallace Carothers made a significant step towards a silk-like fiber and it was introduced to the world in 1938. It was used to make parachutes in the war.

• But before he could see his invention put to use, Carothers committed suicide by taking a dose of potassium cyanide in 1937.

• What was his invention ?

• Nylon

2.

• XY was invented and patented in 1890, by Mr David Strang of Invercargill, New Zealand, under patent number 3518. It was sold under the trading name Strang's Y citing the patented "Dry Hot-Air" process. The invention was previously attributed to Satori Kato, a Japanese scientist working in Chicago in 1901. Kato introduced the powdered substance in Buffalo, New York, at the Pan-American Exposition .George Constant Louis Washington developed his own process to make XY shortly thereafter, and first marketed it commercially in 1910.

• Instant Coffee• No points for “Coffee”

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• The tragic end of the dodos occurred because Dutch sailors brought pigs to the island of Mauritius, which plundered the dodos' nests and ate their eggs and ultimately drove the birds to extinction. It is a misconception that the sailors ate the dodos themselves - they rarely did so as the meat tastes bad.

• What, in the world of technology, is a magnificent historical reconstruction of this tale ?

• Angry Birds• The clinching evidence for this interpretation

is that dodos were flightless birds, so of course they would have needed to use catapults.

4.

• The Beaufort Scale

5.• ‘Homage to ______ ____ ‘ is a collection of essays by Anthony

Burgess.• Book reviews form the bulk of the content, though there are

various essays and an interview Burgess conducted with Graham Greene.

• A section of the book deals with the movie business, including histories of a variety of film stars and early Hollywood producers, about many of whom Burgess had strong opinions.

• Another section is devoted to reviews of biographies of authors, including Dickens, Beckett and Hemingway.

• The book displays the tremendous amount of knowledge Burgess had accumulated by the age of 66, especially concerning geography, travel, cultures, languages and literature.

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• __________ was invented in the United States by James Faria and Robert Wright, who were researchers at Monsanto, Inc. It was originally called “Chemgrass” and was re-branded as _________ by company employee John A. Wortmann. The newest version of _________ is made of green blades of polyethylene.

• Incidentally, the home ground of Hero Hockey India League champions, Ranchi Rhinos is called __________ stadium.

• AstroTurf

7. • Canson is a French manufacturer of fine art paper and related products, founded in 1557.

• The story goes that Jean _______ was taken prisoner by the Turks during the Crusades and was compelled to work in a paper mill in Damascus.

• His son Raymond _______ married the daughters of Antoine Chelles, the owner of the Canson paper mills.

The _________ family subsequently ran the mills. • Raymond’s grandsons Joseph and Jacques were brilliant

inventors. They developed the Bleu de Prusse colour and a new device to raise water. But their most famous invention is something else, which has been referenced in the logo of Canson since 1784, when the paper mills were granted the name "Manufacture Royale"

• FITB, i.e. give me the surname• Logo of Canson on next slide.

• Montgolfier• The Montgolfier Brothers were the inventors

of the Hot Air Balloon

8.• “If I didn’t have you, life would be blueI’d be Doctor Who without the TARDISA candle without a wick, a Watson without a CrickI’d be one of my outfits without a dickey

• I’d be cheese without the Mac,Steve Jobs without the WozniakI’d be solving exponential equations that use bases not found on your calculator, making it much harder to crack…”

• These are the opening lines of a song orchestrated by which Caltech Engineer for his wife, to mark the anniversary of their first date ?

9.• Scabies is a contagious skin infection caused by the mite Sarcoptes scabiei. The mite is a tiny, and usually not directly visible, parasite which burrows under the host's skin, causing intense allergic itching.

• It is classified by the WHO as a water-related disease. The disease may be transmitted from objects, but is most often transmitted by direct skin-to-skin contact.

• The colloquial name for this disease is also a psychological term that suggests that happiness in a relationship declines after certain number of years of a marriage.

• What is the colloquial name ?

10.

• In the early industrial age, buildings began to spring up all over the east coast of the USA. Many of these new buildings were taller than anything ever built before and most had elevators. As buildings got taller and taller, more people began to use elevators. Elevators in those days were pretty darn slow. People were constantly complaining about how slow the elevators were.

• So, after a lot of brainstorming, what solution did engineers come up with ?

• They installed mirrors in elevators• The mirrors have been there ever since

11.• The letter written by this man to the Orthodox

Church in his country is shown on the next slide.• To quote him from the letter – “The longer I live, the more this question drills itself into my brain. And the more I wonder why the Lord allowed man to have the devilish desires of envy, greed and aggression. The Lord showed me the way in the afternoon of my life. When at the age of 91 I cross the threshold of a church, my soul felt as if it had been there before”

• He signs it 'a slave of God, a designer‘, followed by his name.

• Mikhail Kalashnikov

12.

• Give me X and Y• Pic on next slide

• X = Thomas Alva Edison• Y = Henry Ford

Infinite Bounce : Anti Clockwise

Rules

• Same as previous round

1.

• In India, they are designed by two PSUs viz., Bharat Electronics Limited, Bangalore and Electronics Corporation of India Limited, Hyderabad.

• In 1980, Mr. M. B. Haneefa designed the very first of it. His original design was exhibited to the public in six Government Exhibitions of Tamil Nadu, Madras (Chennai), Trichy, Coimbatore, Salem, Madurai and Tirunelveli.

• They were first used in 1981 in the North Paravur Assembly Constituency of Kerala.

• What am I talking about ?

• Electronic Voting Machines

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• The idea of the ______ _____was conceived by Ram Chander Sharma under the guidance of Dr. P.K. Sethi at Sawai ManSingh Medical College.

• It is fitted free of cost by Bhagwan Mahavir Viklang Sahyata Samiti, founded by Devendra Raj Mehta. It costs approximately $US 45 to make.

• FITB.

• Jaipur Foot

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• “______ is a reduced scale Piccard, as the real chap was very tall. He had an interminable neck that sprouted from a collar that was much too large... I made ______ a mini-Piccard, otherwise I would have had to enlarge the frames of the cartoon strip.”

• FITB and Id the speaker.• Here Piccard is the Swiss physicist, Auguste

Piccard.

• Herge about Prof. Calculus

4.

• Claim to fame?

• First movie shot in space

5.

• According to game designer Warren Robinett, this term was coined at Atari by personnel who were alerted to the presence of a secret message which had been hidden by Robinett in his already widely distributed game, Adventure.

• Atari's Adventure, released in 1979, contained the first video game _______ ____ to be discovered by its players, being the name of the game's programmer, Warren Robinett

• Easter Eggs

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• This painting by Salvador Dali is a tribute to which discovery ?

• The double helix structure of the DNA

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• Raumschach was invented in 1907 by Dr. Ferdinand Maack . He founded a Raumschach club in Hamburg in 1919, which remained active until World War II.

• How do we know Raumschach in popular culture ?

8.• This is the sculpture of

John T Daniels.• He had never seen a

camera prior to this, so what was he capturing the first time he used a camera?

• The first flight by the Wright Brothers

9.

• “Jug Sahastra Jojan Par Bhaanu,      Lilyo Taahi Madhur Phal Jaanu”• What is the significance of this line from the

Hanuman Chalisa, something that was proved by NASA many years later after these lines were spoken by Tulsidas?

• It accurately predicts the distance between the Earth & Sun

Expanded meaning:1 Yuga = 12000 years1 Sahastra = 10001 Yojana = 8 MilesYug x Sahastra x Yojan = par Bhanu12000 x 1000 x 8 miles = 96000000 miles1 mile = 1.6kms96000000 miles = 96000000 x 1.6kms = 1536000000 kms to Sun

According to NASA, it is the exact distance between Earth and Sun

10.

• She is believed to have influenced the signing, of the Ottawa Treaty, which created an international ban on the use of anti-personnel landmines.

• Who ?

• Lady Diana

11.

• What name has been blanked out ?

• WWF file format

12.

• Of the 50,000 men who fell at the Battle of Waterloo, most were young and healthy and their _____ were of a generally good standard. Having been plundered from the battlefield, most of these _____ made their way back to Britain, the country best placed to afford the new top-quality X which would incorporate them. These then became known as 'Waterloo _____' and were often worn with a great deal of pride, a 'must-have' accessory for fashion-conscious yet ______less members of the more affluent classes of the time.

• X = Dentures

List it

Description

• List the 26 words used in the NATO phonetic alphabet

• Each of them starts with a different letter of the alphabet

• +1 for each, +10 for 15 or more and +20 for all

• Alpha• Bravo• Charlie• Delta• Echo• Foxtrot• Golf• Hotel• India• Juliett• Kilo• Lima• Mike

• November• Oscar• Papa• Quebec• Romeo• Sierra• Tango• Uniform• Victor• Whiskey• X-ray• Yankee• Zulu