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Rule ## #1 :: Get your Asses in the Final of the COQ

Categories that have been covered in this year’s COQ: • • • • • • • • • • •

History and Geography Movies and Television Music Art and architecture Science India/Delhi Sports Books Mythology Business Technology

Guidelines for the COQ • The questions are difficult, the answers are not. Think simple, yet logical answers. • While attempting connect questions identify each image. Then on a paper start connecting. • For the semis and finals play the quizmaster and not the quiz. • For the quarters distribute the topics amongst team members so that there isn’t duplication of effort. • Prelims are a breeze mostly but again think logically simple answers that fit the description of the question.

Humble request::- Kindly attempt the prelims from the past years. Divide amongst your team members. If not all the questions at least last years questions.

Methodology

• questions from various topics. • Divide yourselves into teams and sit for the quiz • Every time a question goes unanswered we try and figure out the best logical deduction of the answer

•+10 for direct •Try to get as many answers as you can •Questions till your stamina runs out or your brain goes dead. •These aren’t difficult questions they are feel good questions to get you guys in the groove

COQ 2012 Prelims Questions (Srijan) General Part 1 General Part 2 Quizcraft Archives

Q.1.‘And I Laid traps for the troubadors who got killed before they reached Bombay’ is probably a reference to the Thugee cult, devoted to the Goddess Kali, the Goddess of death. Kali was also the inspiration for the iconic band’s logo, whose lyrics were just mentioned. Which band?

Q.2. The story centers on an imaginary, historical royal family in the kingdom of Kumarpur. The main characters are the king and his two warring wives Dilbahar and Navbahar. Their rivalry escalates when a fakir predicts that Navbahar will bear the king's heir. Dilbahar, in revenge, attempts to have an affair with the kingdom's chief minister Adil. The affair goes sour and a vengeful Dilbahar imprisons him and exiles his daughter, _________ (Zubeida). In exile, __________is brought up by Gypsies. Upon returning to the palace at Kumarpur, __________ meets and falls in love with the charming young prince . In the end, Adil is released, Dilbahar is punished and the lovers marry. Plot for what film?

Q.3. This band was originally named Pectoralz. Later they changed it to Starfish, and finally to ______ which remains their current name. Interestingly, the name literally means necrophilia. The band’s lead singer expressed ignorance of this fact when it was brought to their attention. Which band?

Q.4.Floor Plan for what?

Q.5.Whose bibliography? In a Hail of Bullets Gathering Storm Unholy Storm Storm's Last Stand Storm Season Storm Rising Storm Warning Storm's Break Storm Fall

Heat Wave Naked Heat Death of a Prom Queen Flowers For Your Grave Hell Hath No Fury A Skull at Springtime At Dusk We Die When It Comes to Slaughter A Rose for Everafter

Q.6."X" is a song recorded by American DJ and producer Baauer. It was released on May 22, 2012. The uptempo song incorporates a mechanical bassline, Dutch house synth riffs, a dance music drop, and samples of growlinglion sounds. It also samples Plastic Little's 2001 song "Miller Time", specifically the vocal "then do the X", which is an allusion to dance of the same name.

Q.7. 2 of 12 where would you find the rest?

Q.8. X won the Oscar for Best Actor and Y won it for the Best Supporting Actor, for the same character. They are the only two actors to win it in this way .Id both actors and the character.

Q.10. It is a television sitcom written by Steven Moffat. A TV critic famously said about this show “Men and women think about sex every six seconds shorten that to two seconds and you’ve got A”. One of the female protagonists frequently enters a scene saying, "Sorry, I'm late." This is a dig at the Producer(writer’s wife) who, according to Steven Moffat, tends to turn up late quite often. Which sitcom am I talking about?

Q.11.The company as we know it today was found by four individuals : Piet Klijnveld, William Barclay Peat, James Marwick, and Reinhard Goerdeler. The history of the company is as follows: In 1911 William Barclay Peat & Co. and Marwick Mitchell & Co. merged to form Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co, later known as Peat Marwick. The third and fourth founders merged their company in the years 1979 and 1987 respectively eventually leading to the formation of X- Peat Marwick. In the year 1999 the Peat Marwick was dropped and finally the company’s name today is simply X. The company’s logo is blue in colour and has four rectangular boxes which as rumour has it are symbolic of the companies four founders. Identify this company.

Q.12. ID

Q.13.In the Star Trek fictional universe, the fictional computer OS known as “Library Computer Access/Retrieval System (LCARS)” is often seen used on a device known as “Personal Access Display Device”. This device served as the inspiration of the name for a modern technology marvel – more so because of their similar appearances.Name this modern gadget every one of you would love to own.

Q.14.The story goes thus, Linda Chen decided to work for free for X provided that he would take care of Y when she went on site for the shoot. X didn't do that and eventually Y died. Y was paid homage in Z(Minimalist poster on the side ). Give me X, Y and Z.

Q.15.The year was 1992 and India was playing South Africa. It was Jonty Rhodes who claimed the first dismissal by this means getting Sachin Tendulkar out in the first Test on India's tour of South Africa in 1992-93.What means/method?

Q.16.Identify the person & the candy brand?

Q.17. It is a distress signal sent using Morse code which is not an abbreviation, but popularly has many expansions invented by people. It was part of an international convention till 1999, when it was replaced by a newer signal. It was first adopted by the German government in 1905 and internationally in 1908. What is being talked about?

Q.18. Frankie Boyle a scottish comedian and writer had the following to say about a recent event. Identify the event and the person?

Q.19. The Solids are a power pop band from Middletown, Connecticut. The band consists of Carter Bays, Craig Thomas, Patrick Butler, and C.C. DePhil. They have been writing, recording, and performing music since 1996. The Solids first became popular for their song "The Future Is Now," which was the theme song for the Fox television program Oliver Beene. A 12-second clip from their song "Hey, Beautiful" is the theme song for another show. Which show.

Q.20. XKCD’s reference to what?

Q.21. What is this?

Q.23.Pedigree the pet food manufacturer is owned by which company?

Q.24. The console was given the codename Revolution and for the longest time was known as revolution by hard core gamers. Despite the company’s explanation of the name X, some video game developers and members of the press reacted negatively to the change. They preferred "Revolution" over “X”. The BBC reported the day after the name was announced that "a long list of puerile jokes, based on the name," had appeared on the Internet. Reggie FilsAime acknowledged the initial reaction and further explained the change: • Revolution as a name is not ideal; it's long, and in some cultures, it's hard to pronounce. So we wanted something that was short, to the point, easy to pronounce, and distinctive. That's how ‘X,' as a console name, was created. • In 2012 a successor to the console was released titled Y. Identify both X and Y?

Q.25. The band's singers quote the following about their famous grammy award winning 1970's song that has abstract lyrics:

"I know, it's so boring...It's a song about the dark underbelly of the American Dream, and about excess in America, which was something we knew about." “...our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles.” “All of us kind of drove into LA at night. Nobody was from California, and if you drive into LA at night... you can just see this glow on the horizon of lights, and the images that start running through your head of Hollywood and all the dreams that you have, and so it was kind of about that... what we started writing the song about. Name the song and the band.

Q.26.A generic term takes its name from this place in Iceland which has been active since 10000 year and itself is Icelandic for “to gush”, what is that term?

Q.27. Who is X? Eddie: So who broke up with who? Chandler: I broke up with her. She actually thought X was the capital of Cambodia! Eddie: Yeah! 'Cause everybody knows that the capital of Cambodia... Chandler: is...not X!" -

Q.28.The comic strip shown below is that of Frazz. The eightyear-old shown in the strip was named by his parents after reading X. The cartoonist regards Y as "the hero of the strip... He won’t give up that joy of learning for the sake of a test score, for quiet approval, for the easy A“ Identify X and Y?

Q.29. Put Funda • A girl who is warm and humanly during the day A classy girl who know how to enjoy the freedom of a cup of coffee A girl whose heart gets hotter when night comes A girl with that kind of twist • I’m a guy A guy who is as warm as you during the day A guy who one-shots his coffee before it even cools down A guy whose heart bursts when night comes That kind of guy • Beautiful, loveable Yes you, hey, yes you, hey Beautiful, loveable Yes you, hey, yes you, hey Now let’s go until the end

Q.30. "Birthdays of fictional characters such as those appearing in comic books and movies are generally determined as the day they first appeared before the public, such as the publication or release dates. • Two famous fictional characters share their birthdays... • The first one, an animal, was inspired by Charlie Chaplin. It made a debut in an animated movie in 1928. Since then, it has appeared in animated cartoons, movies, comic strips, TV and even video games. It first appeared in color in 1935. A highly successful character, it also has a star dedicated to it on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. • The other, a comic strip character, made its first appearance in 1985. It is named after a theologian who believed in predestination. The character has appeared on merchandise but never in animation. The comic strip has been featured in over 2,400 newspapers worldwide and 30 million copies of its books have been sold.

• Name the two characters.

Q.31.“It is wonderful, the power of a faith like that, that can make multitudes upon multitudes of the old and weak and the young and frail enter without hesitation or complaint upon such incredible journeys and endure the resultant miseries without repining. It is done in love, or it is done in fear; I do not know which it is. No matter what the impulse is, the act born of it is beyond imagination, marvelous to our kind of people, the cold whites.” • Who on what?

Q.32. ID

Q.33. Sir Hugh Beaver, in 1951 went on a shooting party in the North Slob, Ireland. He became involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe, the golden plover or the grouse (the former being correct). The inability to confirm this uncertainty, inspired Sir Hugh Beaver to create something which would help answer such questions. What was that something he came up with?

Q.34. In 1981, a certain Jean-Louis Dumas was seated next to Jane X on a flight. She had just placed her straw bag in the overhead compartment of her seat, but the contents fell to the deck, leaving her to scramble to replace the contents. X explained to Dumas that it had been difficult to find a leather weekend bag she liked. In 1984, he created a black supple leather bag for her, based on an 1892 design. She used the bag for herself then later changed her mind because she was carrying too many things in it: “What’s the use of having a second one?” she laughs. “You only need one and that busts your arm; they’re bloody heavy. I’m going to have to have an operation for tendonitis in the shoulder.” Nevertheless, the bag has since become an icon.

Q.35.It gets its name from a French word meaning "to toss food". It originated in the area around present day Nice. It was originally a poor farmer's dish, prepared in the summer with fresh summer vegetables. The original used only courgettes, tomatoes, bell peppers, onion, and garlic. Nowadays aubergine is added. Name the dish.

Q.36.Who runs this company?

Q.37.Spanish for “little donkey”, this dish gets its name for the fact it resembles donkey’s ears. What is the dish?

Q.38. X Spanish for "the gilded one" is the name of a Muisca tribal chief who covered himself with gold dust and, as an initiation rite, dove into the Guatavita Lake. Later, it became the name of a legendary "Lost City of Gold", that fascinated explorers since the days of the Spanish Conquistadors. No evidence for its existence has been found. • In his 1849 poem “X," writer Edgar Allan Poe offers an eerie and eloquent suggestion: "Over the Mountains of the Moon, down the Valley of the Shadow, ride, boldly ride…if you seek for X.“ • What is X?

Q.39. Upon hearing the result of the Operation Cocoon led by the Tamil Nadu Special Task Force, the villagers of Gopinatham breathed a huge sigh of relief and burst crackers on the streets of the village, as they wanted to wash out the stigma attached to their village. What happened?

Q.40.

Q.41.LZ 129 Hindenburg was a large German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume. It was designed and built by the Y Company on the shores of Lake Constance in Friedrichshafen and was operated by the German Y Airline Company. • Why do we care about it?

Q.42.221B Baker Street in London is a nonexistent place. However, every year hundreds of fans from across the world gather in London, and look for this address, as X is believed to live here. Until some years ago, the Building Society had a full time secretary to answer the mails addressed to X. Who is X?

Q.43. It was founded in 1922, by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace. It reaches out to 40 million people in more than 70 countries, with 49 editions in 21 languages. In the summer of 2005, the U.S. edition adopted the slogan, "America in your pocket." In January 2008, it was changed to "Life well shared.”ID.(yesterday’s ET last page)

Q.44. A lesser known theme song to this show was an instrumental called “Rise and Shine.” The movie version of this show was the final theatrical film of Elizabeth Taylor. Jackie Gleason considered suing this show for ripping off The Honeymooners. The protagonist’s wife had the maiden name of Slaghoople/Pebble, and the final season of this show saw the arrival of an alien called The Great Gazoo. The protagonist works for Mr. Slate. Identify the protagonist ?

Q.45. X boasted that he was the greatest of all time and challenged everybody that he could lift a mountain with his bare hands (Later, Krishna parodied this by lifting a mountain with His little finger). Unfortunately for X, the mountain was Kailash, and the Gods as usual panicked. It is said that when the mountain got a new high, Shiva had to step in with his toe, literally. His pressure made the mountain very heavy and X dropped it on his own fingers. X shrieked, screamed and roared in pain. Even with the pain, X composed the Shiva tandava Stotra impromptu. Pleased with his devotion, Lord Shiva showed his glory self to X and gave him the title Y, by which we know him best. Name X and Y.

Q.46. The initial proposed name was Laboratory for the Development of Substitute Materials. General Leslie Groves, mindful of such a name attracting undue attention, changed it to a more innocuous one. What?

Q.47. Sampooran Singh Kalra is an Indian poet, lyricist and director . He began his career under the directors Bimal Roy and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. His book Ravi Paar has a narrative of Bimal Roy and the agony of creation. His poetry is partly published in three compilations: Chand Pukhraaj Ka, Raat Pashminey Ki and Pandrah Paanch Pachattar. How do we better know him?

Q.48.What is the capital of Illinois?

Q.49.After his tomato crop failed, a certain gentleman dabbled in something else. It gave rise to a product which takes its name from an American Indian word that means 'a place with fertile and humid soil'. Which brand?

Q.50.

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Q.52. X (April 2, 1725 – June 4, 1798) was a Venetian adventurer and author. His main book Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), part autobiography and part memoir, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He enjoyed the company of European royalty, popes and cardinals, along with men such as Voltaire, Goethe and Mozart; but if he had not been obliged to spend some years as a librarian in the household of Count Waldstein of Bohemia (where he relieved his boredom by writing the story of his life), he would probably be forgotten today. Who?

Q.53. ID.

Q.54. In May 1954, Life magazine published a report on illiteracy among American school children. Apparently, children were not learning to read because their books were boring. Theodor Geisel’s publisher gave him a list of 400 words that children learn in school, and told him to write an engaging book. In nine months, Geisel wrote ____________________ in anapestic tetrameter, using 236 distinct words. More than 10 million copies of this book have been printed. It has been translated into several languages, including the Latin Cattus Petasatus. Identify this work.

Q.55. In the year 1812, a large quantity of provisions for the army was purchased at Troy, N.Y., by Elbert Anderson, a government contractor. The goods were inspected by two brothers, Ebenezer and Samuel Wilson. The last named was invariably known among the workmen as “X" The packages were marked E.A.U.S. On being asked the meaning of these initials, a workman jokingly replied that he didn't know unless they meant Elbert Anderson and ‘X’. The title became popular among the workmen, soldiers and people. What is X?

Q.56.Parody of?

Q.57. In order to explain his theory on how culture is transmitted inhumans. Richard Dawkins coined a new term X in his book “The selfishgene”. His book likens the X to gene which carries genetic informationsimilarly the X carries cultural practices/ideas.The spread of X is similar to natural selection. X do this through theprocesses of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance, each ofwhich influencing a reproductive success.This term may also describe a information that is spread rapidly in newage media.What’s the good word?

Q.58. The town is about 80 miles southwest of Denver. A peculiarity is that it is almost always winter there and usually snow on the ground. The town flag was changed from the racist image of white people lynching a black man, to a politically correct one featuring a black man being lynched by people of all races and nationalities, including another black man. Name the town.

Q.59. This diagram shows the interior of a __X__. Crack open any two __X__ hilts and the interiors may differ somewhat, but the key features are remarkably consistent.The major components are shown in the diagram.What is __X__

Q.60.

Q.61. According to one film historian,“It synthesizes classical and mythic narrative, soft-core political and social commentary (condemning the corruption of politicians and capitalists and championing the nascent environmental initiatives of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi). The narrative recapitulates the Abhijñānaśākuntalam story that first appeared in the epic Mahabharata and then was reworked by Kalidasa.“ Which film am I talking about?

Q.62.The following is an extract from the novel Kim what is being described here? "Look! Brahmins and chumars, bankers and tinkers, barbers and bunnias, pilgrims -and potters - all the world going and coming. It is to me as a river from which I am withdrawn like a log after a flood. And truly -------------------- is a wonderful spectacle. It runs straight, bearing without crowding India's traffic for fifteen hundred miles - such a river of life as nowhere else exists in the world.”

Q.63. This song has been covered and sampled many times since its initial release in 1973, including by Mary J. Blige in “What’s the 411?”, former American Idol contestant Jason Castro in 2008, and Warren G on his album Take a Look Over Your Shoulder (Reality). This song’s lyrics assert that “every day the bucket goes to the well” but that “one day the bottom will drop out” in its final verse, after explaining that the singer had seen freedom coming his way one day as he started out of town. The singer of this song also laments that someone “always hated me, for what I don’t know,” and that whenever he tries to plant a seed that same person says to “kill it before it grows.” The cover of this song that appears on the album 461 Ocean Boulevard was Eric Clapton’s only number one hit in the U.S. Identify the song?

Q.64.She’s the first of two tennis players to achieve this. The achievement is not related to sports. Her name is Ashley Harkerload. What did she do?

Q.65. 'I'm making a drink and realize the pasty tall fellow pouring orange juice into my glass is the man himself, X,' she wrote.'Realizing I kind of have to go for at it this point, in all my nerd glory blurt out: "I'm sure everyone tells you this but I loved Y.‘ She claims that the pair kissed in a kitchen at the party after she told him that she did not like his Z films. ID X,Y and Z? (The following excerpt is from a chain email sent out by Beejoli Shah. The dude on the right is not the person I am talking about.

Q.66

Greek letter Chi • Hebrew letter Aleph • Cyrillic letter Kha • Gyfu in pre-Norman Britain • A Chinese character, pronounced "yì" A letter representing [u] or [w] in Mandarin Phonetic Symbols • also Japanese katakana character • Mathematical Operator All variations of what?

Q.67. In 2007, USA lifted the ban on the import of Indian mangoes after 18years in exchange of allowing the entry of which iconic American brand in India?

Q.68. This is the flag of X. The red bar, which lies closest to the mast, symbolizes X as it is today. The green and blue symbolize stages in the possible terraforming of X, should humanity ever have the will and the ability to undertake such a task

Q.69. Whose coat of arms?

Q.70. X was born in the Bronx, New York City and raised in Bayside, Queens. He is the eldest son of two immigrant doctors from India. He attended Townsend Harris High School, a public school in Flushing, Queens. In high school, he scored a near-perfect SAT, and graduated with a A.B. cum laude in applied mathematics. He is currently attending Northwestern University School of Law and the Kellogg School of Management for his J.D. and MBA. He is currently the CEO of his start up called SumZero which he claims is sort of a linkedin for finance. Identify X ?

Q.71. One of the oldest and most historic art-house cinemas in Los Angeles. Who owns it?

Q.72. Identify the restaurant chain found by this man?

Q.73.If Happy hippo dive, Little Red sled and Harbour Master are the lesser known works of this company. Identify the more popular work.

Q.74.

Q.75.Launched in 1924 as a Women’s Product and based on the slogan “Mild as May” this product relied on marketing which proved to the consumer how ladylike the product was. On one end it had a red band to hide lipstick with an advertisement calling it “beauty tips to keep the paper from your lips.” Identify this product which after 1950’s was repositioned for the other sex.

Q.76. The End of the Affair (1951) is a novel by British author Graham Greene. Set in London during and just after the Second World War, the novel examines the obsessions, jealousy and discernments within the relationships between three central characters: writer Maurice Bendrix; Sarah Miles; and her husband, civil servant Henry Miles. Graham Greene's own affair with Lady Catherine Walston played into the basis for The End of the Affair. Connect to a 2012 film.

Q.77.

Q.78. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra announced that among his upcoming projects would be a biography of X.Cineblitz decided to cash in on the deal by immediately putting together a photo-op resulting in the picture on the left.What iconic movie poster is this a recreation of?

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Q.80.Developed by five US Army soldiers, 2LT Hans Mumm, SSG Shawn Mahoney, SGT Andrei Salter, SGT Scott Boehmler, and SPC Joseph Barrios, who were assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the product was first announced publicly in Iraq on 11 April 2003, in a press conference by Army Brig. What?

Q.81.ID

Q.82.Connect : A rifle A poem by Mikhail Lermontov An opera by Anton Rubinstein

Q.83.This was created in December 1979 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, by Canadian Chris Haney, a photo editor for Montreal's The Gazette and Scott Abbott, a sports editor for The Canadian Press. After finding pieces of their Scrabble game missing, they decided to create their own game. What?

Q.84. In which film would you originally hear the track Raindrops are falling on my head?

Q.85. X was formed in mid-1981 by guitarists Scott Ian Rosenfeld and Danny Lilker. The band was named after the disease the two saw listed in a biology textbook, using it because it sounded "sufficiently evil". What is X?

Q.86.

Q.87. Historic sources present disparate accounts of X’s complex personality: he was described as intelligent and devout, yet given to rages and prone to episodic outbreaks of mental illness. On one such outburst he killed his groomed and chosen heir. He was the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and Tsar of All the Russias from 1547 until his death.

Q.88. In March 1964, the publisher of The Times of India, Bennet, Coleman & Co., launched a new series called X. The first 32 issues contained "The Phantom" stories, but thereafter, the title alternated between various King Features characters, including Mandrake, Flash Gordon, Mike Nomad and Buz Sawyer, as well as the Publishers Syndicate character Kerry Drake. In 1976, the distinctly Indian character, Bahadur, joined the rotation. Stories involving "The Phantom," Flash Gordon and Mandrake emphasized their roles as heroes, with special powers, talents or sci-fi tools. The remaining characters in the X universe played out more conventional detective and crime stories.

Q.89.Brown Columbia Cornell X Harvard Princeton University of Pennsylvania Yale

Q.90. X was launched on 15 March 1993 by Dr. Simon King, a British researcher at the University of Minnesota with help from students and researchers at universities around the world. It initially operated as a volunteer-based collective, and started life as a simple IRC bot. It was soon made available via Gopher as well, and with the advent of the Mosaic web browser in April 1993 became one of the earliest content web sites on the Internet.

Q.91. Funda

Q.92. ID

Q.93.ID?

Q.94.X was the fifth Prefect of the Roman province of Judaea, from AD 26–36.He is best known as the judge at the trial of Jesus and the man who authorized the crucifixion of Jesus. As prefect, he served under Emperor Tiberius.

Q.95.Founders of what?

Q.96.Just as ‘My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nougat’ is an abbreviation for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. So is Big Gorillas Eat Hotdogs Not Cold Pizza? What does it stand for?

Q.97.ID. Most probably Video

Q.98. ID?

Q.99.Connect

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Q.101. In the month of October, 1949, in a letter addressed to X, Aldous Huxley wrote: • “Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience” • This was in reference to a novel X wrote. The novel is set in a dystopian society, and is known for introducing ideas such as ‘thought crime’. Identify X and the novel.

Q.102. This French physicist and mathematician had a tragic personal life. His father was a wealthy city official, and during the French Revolution was sent to the guillotine. His first wife died shortly after their marriage, and he separated from his second wife less than a year into their marriage. He was never able to fully recover from these tragedies. For his gravestone, he chose the epitaph ‘Tandem Felix’, meaning ‘Happy at Last’. Which physicist are we talking about here?

Q.103. It comprises of 427 quotations, divided into 33 chapters on the basis of themes. Most editions of it are pocket sized and easy to carry. The most widely produced editions of this book carry a red vinyl cover. Which book?

Q.104. Linus van pelt, Rerun van pelt, Lucy van pelt, Woodstock, Sally Brown, Schroeder, Peppermint Paddy, Marcie, Franklin, Shermy, Violet Gray, Peggy Jean, Roy. • Give the either of the two names missing from the above list.

Q.105.Which name would connect the following? Newest Captain of Queen Anne’s Revenge (fictional element) A German Battleship that served as a prison ship in the First World War German invasion of the Soviet Union during the Second World War An Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire The drummer of the first generation of Adam and the Ants An Asteroid

Q106. With which manufacturing company would you associate the designer of the following: a) Tiger Tank I and II b) The Volkswagen Beetle c) V-1 flying bomb *This automobile designer was also decorated with the German National Prize for Art and Science, one of the rarest decorations in Nazi Germany.

Q.107. _____________________________was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. The founding treaty was established under the initiative of the Soviet Union and signed on 14 May 1955. The ______________________ was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CoMEcon), the regional economic organization for the communist states of Eastern Europe. The _____________________ was a Soviet military response to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 as per the Paris Pacts of 1954.

Q.108. He was born as Farookh Bulsara, in 1946, in Zanzibar, East Africa. He was of Parsi-Indian parentage, and is renowned for his 4 octave voice range which seemed to revolutionize rock music forever and became the soul of one of the most popular rock songs and modern art masterpieces of music history. His life was marred by the social, legal and media criticism of his homosexuality, and he ultimately died of bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS, in 1991. Identify this rockstar.

Q.109. “I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis” - these were the famous last words of a Hollywood actor who is popular for delivering legendary movie dialogues like “The stuff that dreams are made of” and “Here’s looking at you kid”. Identify this legend who had suffered a lip wound in the US Navy during the First World War which gave him a distinctive appearance and voice when he later became an actor.

Q.110. This year, in the month of April, the Tuareg rebels took over the historic city of X. It was founded in the 12th Century AD by the ancestors of these very rebels, that is, the Tuareg nomads. It soon turned into an important centre for the trade of gold, silver and salt in the Sub-Saharan Africa. Once it was abandoned in the transitional period of the 17th to the 18th century, myths grew that the inhabitants left lump sum amounts of treasury there. Due to the impossibility to reach this place, X soon became the French, British and Dutch equivalent of the legendary cities of El Dorado and Atlantis. When it was finally discovered by Frenchman Rene Callie in the 1830s, the city was in a perpetual state of decline and ruins. Identify the city X.

Q.111. On Saturday, X died in a car crash at Imola. Y, on the very same day, called for an emergency meeting of all participating drivers in order to persuade them to make an appeal to the FIA to increase the safety measures for all grand prix drivers as fatal accidents were becoming a common sight in motorsports. On Sunday, Y died due to a race accident. The reasons as to why Y’s car crashed is still an engineering mystery. But Y’s death completely over shadowed the former’s (X) death. Identify X.

Q.112. This political ideology derives its essence from historical events like the German and Italian Unifications of the 19th century. It aims at uniting people belonging to the Arabic and Kurdish communities. The ideology is mainly concentrated around the issues of Arab Nationalism, Arab Socialism, and Anti-Imperialism. Its main proponents were people like Hafez al Assad, Michel Aflaq, Zaki Al Arsouzi and even Saddam Hussain. Give the name of this political ideology which has come under criticism due to the failure of Bashar Al Assad’s regime in Syria.

Q.113. Kodak officials now admit that they never made any public announcement about the X. In fact, nobody in the city—officials, police or firemen—or in the state of New York or anywhere else knew about X until it was recently leaked by an ex-employee. X’s existence and whereabouts were purposely kept vague and only a few engineers and Federal employees really knew about the project. It's extremely strange that Kodak managed to get something like this. The X was installed in a closely guarded, two-foot-thick concrete walled underground bunker in the company's headquarters, where it was fed tests using a pneumatic system. According to the company, no employees were ever in contact with it. Apparently, it was operated by atomic fairies and unicorns. Identify the object X.

Q.114. This band had assumed their identity as 'The New Yardbirds'. They however changed their name later on, and started touring America as a support band for 'The Rolling Stones'. They received numerous encores, and had outplayed the Stones themselves. Name this 300 million record selling band. Identify this band.

Q.115. X stood out from the many family and group sitcoms of its time. None of the principal characters were related by family or work connections but remained distinctively close friends throughout the seasons. Unlike many other sitcoms, X focused less on a plot-driven story than on minutiae, such as waiting in line at the movies, going out for dinner, buying a suit and dealing with the petty injustices of life. Which famous sitcom, not so popular in the United Kingdom but a big success in the United States, are we talking about?

Q.116. Un Chien Andalou is a silent surrealist film released in the year 1929. The film has no proper plot or a definitive chronology. It makes use of dream logic in a narrative flow. It is the first film by director Luis Buñuel, which he wrote in collaboration with another prominent Spanish surrealist. Identify his partner.

Q.117. What is the significance of Reel 2, Dialogue Track 2 in cinema?

Q.118. In order to recognize Poland’s sovereignty, the Allied Nations decided to provide it with access to the Baltic Sea, as per American President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points of 1918, by handing them over the city/port of X, hence splitting the German nation into East and West Prussia by a narrow geographical corridor, known as the Polish or X Corridor (named after the city). After Hitler ordered an attack on X to restore Germany’s access to the Baltic Sea, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany for not recognizing Poland’s independence, hence triggering the Second World War. Name the very famous city/port known as Gdansk in the Polish language.

Q.119. X is still considered as a hero amongst the Arabs, though his actions turned out to be counter productive for the various Arab tribes who wanted a United Arab Council to be established in Damascus, after X’s army had single handedly overthrown the Turks from the port of Aqaba and the city of Damascus. The council, headed by X, was a democratic body which took power in the name of the then Prince of Saudi Arabia, Prince Feisal. However, Prince Feisal and the British military authorities took advantage of X’s unification of the Arab nations to seize power over the entire Saracen region. In 1935, X died in a motorcycle accident when swerved in order to avoid clashing with two boys on a country road. A bust of X was placed in St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. Identify this World War I hero X who was also an eminent literary figure and a cartographer.

Q.120. . X was born in Baramati, Pune District in a Chitpavan Brahmin family. At birth, he was named Ramachandra. X was given his name because of an unfortunate incident. Before he was born, his parents had three sons and a daughter, with all three boys dying in their infancy. Fearing a curse that targeted male children, young Ramachandra was brought up as a girl for the first few years of his life, including having his nose pierced and being made to wear a nose-ring. It was then that he earned the nickname "X". After his younger brother was born, they switched to treating him as a boy.

Q.121. X was a French filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. He was born, and later died, in Paris, where his family manufactured shoes. He was very innovative in the use of special effects. He accidentally discovered the stop trick, or substitution, in 1896, and was one of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his films. He directed 531 films between 1896 and 1914, ranging in length from one to forty minutes. In subject matter, these films are often similar to the magic theater shows that X had been doing, containing tricks and impossible events, such as objects disappearing or changing size. Agents of Thomas Edison bribed a theater owner in London, England for a copy of A Trip to the Moon, one of X’s most famous movies. Edison then made hundreds of copies and showed them in New York City. X received no compensation. In 1913 X's Film Company was forced into bankruptcy by the large French and American studios and his company was bought out of receivership by Pathé Frères. After being driven out of business X became a toy salesman at the Montparnasse station. In 1932 the Cinema Society gave X a home in Chateau D'Orly. Long after burning his negatives in despair, X was rediscovered and honored for his work, eventually taking up stage performance.

Q.122. Though Shakespeare is credited with the invention of this word, linguists feel that this word can be traced to the roots of an Arab tribe which used to carry out murders in return for hashish. Identify this word.

Q.123. X was a Spanish knight whose real name was Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar. He gathered a group of the bravest soldiers and knights from the kingdom of Castile, and this entire group fought as Mercenaries – fighting for both Christian as well as Muslim kingdoms in Spain, and this aspect of his nature was to a large extent responsible for impeding the expansion of the Arabs into Europe during the 15th century. However, he was equally respected by both the Muslims, as well as the Christians, with the former giving him the title X, which literally translates into “the lord” in Arabic. Identify this legendary medieval mercenary by his popular name X.

Q.124. X is an American film actor and producer. His career has spanned six decades and includes roles in several Hollywood blockbusters. At one point, four of the top six box-office hits of all time included one of his roles. Initially not happy with the roles being offered to him, X became a self-taught professional carpenter to support his then-wife and two small sons. While working as a carpenter, he became a stagehand for the popular rock band The Doors. X, despite not being trained, kept learning about carpentry from books, and by all accounts became a fantastic carpenter. Ten years later, while building a doorway in Francis Ford Coppola's office, he was invited to audition for one of the most iconic roles of all time in a film that launched his acting career. ID X.

Q.125. X’s father died when X was only eight years old. His mother and his brother Tom died of tuberculosis, and it is believed that X too died of tuberculosis while treating his brother Tom. X studied medicine at Guy’s Hospital, London, but soon gave up his studies to pursue poetry. He was the leading proponents of the Romanticism in England. Identify X.

Q.126. X was a Swedish actress who was famous for her serious expression. It was headline news when she smiled for the first time on screen in the movie Ninotchka (1939). She started off as a model, but soon started acting in films. She became an instant success in the silent movie era, and when the talking picture came in, her Swedish accent meant that she was given roles as distinguished ladies such as the great Swedish queen in Queen Christina (1933) and the tragic heroine in Anna Karenina (1935). Her films were banned from being showcased in many European nations after the US entered the Second World War in 1941. She retired soon after, and distanced herself from public life creating a mystery about her life. Identify this actress.

Q.127. The team started as Toleman Motorsports in 1981 and was bought out by sponsors Benetton ahead of the ’86 season. Later in2000, Team Benetton announced that they would officially become X from 2002, and in the years to come, X would become the first mainstream auto-maker in the history of the motorsport to win the constructor’s title. X, or its former lineage, together, is often considered to be the greatest of all time for nurturing many legends of the sport: Flavio Briatore (as a team manager), and Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher, Nelson Piquet & Fernando Alonso as race drivers. In 2011, following the recession, X sold its final shares to Genii Capital, and in 2012 the team’s name was changed to Y, though X continues to supply the engine. Identify Y.

Q.128. George Clooney : Christian Bale Jeremy Brett : Benedict Cumberbatch Tobey Maguire : Andrews Garlfield George Peppard : X