Rules

• First round: general (20 questions)• Second round: sports (10 questions)• Pounce: +20/-10• Direct: +10• Pass: +10

Q1. What is X?• While they didn’t technically invent X, it was the Aztecs

who inadvertently introduced X to the world.• Believed to be a key component in the foundation of their

empire, X played a large role in Aztec culture. It was often used in making necklaces or headdresses, and it was commonly used to decorate religious statues.

• When Columbus first interacted with the Arawak tribe, he was given a X corsage.

• Sugar shortages during WWII made candy hard to come by, catapulting the consumption of X to three times its pre-war levels.

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Popcorn

Q2.Who is being talked about here?• The Hermosa Beach, Calif., boardwalk is hardly the

decadent palace you'd expect of a former swindler whose drug-fueled escapades inspired a film; instead, it's comfortable but unpretentious.

• This place has been the best-selling author and motivational speaker's headquarters for much of the time since he was released from prison in Taft, Calif., having served 22 months for fraud and money laundering. But even after eight years of freedom, he can't quite escape his past. Prosecutors claimed he had failed to make court-mandated payments toward the $110.4 million he owes his victims.

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Jordan Belfort

Q3. Who?

• He was undercover in Pakistan for 7 years posing as a Pakistani Muslim in Lahore.

• In 1999, when the Indian Airlines flight IC-814 was hijacked from Kathmandu and flown to Kandahar with the passengers as hostages, he was India’s main negotiator with the hijackers.

• He was in the Golden Temple in the days leading up to the Indian army’s Operation Bluestar, posing as a Pakistani spy, gaining the militants’ confidence, and then reconnoitring the militant’s preparations and fortifications in the holiest of Sikh shrines.

• In December 2009, he was the founder Director of the Vivekananda International foundation, a think tank set up by the Vivekananda Kendra, a Spiritually Oriented Organisation.

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NSA Ajit Doval

Q4.• In 1966, X decided to give their account to the Advertising

agency called Advertising and Sales Promotion (ASP) to work on their ad campaign. Sylvester da Cunha, then the managing director of the agency and Eustace Fernandez, art director decided to create something that would grab the attention of every housewife in the country.

• They created something which was described as ‘towering over all prominent landmarks , she has been attracting more eyeballs than even Bollywood bombshells.’

What is X and what did they create?

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X – Amul The Amul girl( created as a response to Amul's rival

brand Polson's butter-girl )

Q5. Why is she called as ‘HEROINE OF NIAGARAFALLS’ ? (Put Funda)

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Annie Edson Taylor was an American adventurer who, on her birthday, October 24, 1901, became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

Q6. In 1998, London-based entrepreneur Irvine Sellar and his

then partners decided to redevelop the 1970s-era Southwark Towers following a UK government white paper encouraging the development of tall buildings at major transport hubs. Sellar flew to Berlin in the spring of 2000 to meet the Italian architect Renzo Piano for lunch. According to Sellar, Piano spoke of his contempt for conventional tall buildings during the meal, before flipping over the restaurant's menu and sketching a spire-like sculpture emerging from the River Thames.

What did Piano design?(Image to follow)

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The Shard - it is a 95 storey skyscraper in Southwark, London, that forms part of the London

Bridge Quarter development. Standing 309.6 metres (1,016 ft) high, the Shard is the tallest building in the United Kingdom and the 105th tallest building in the world.

Q7.• The X is a dance move. It has its origins in the Atlanta hip-

hop scene, but there is disagreement about who originated the dance.

• In 2015, the X rose to national prominence in the U.S. As XXL Magazine reported in August 2015, "What started as a regional down South adlib is quickly becoming a masterful manoeuvre in clubs and on street corners.”

• The X gained popularity in U.S. sports following an eight-second performance by Cam Newton, football quarterback for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League, during a game against the Tennessee Titans on November 15, 2015.

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Q8.

The law was passed in California when the popular Hollywood actor purchased a sonogram machine for his then- wife Katie Holmes during her pregnancy. It prohibits the sale of diagnostic ultrasound to anyone but appropriately licensed clinicians. What is this law called?

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The “Tom Cruise Law”

Q9. X is a muscular , boorish, and dim-witted self-

proclaimed womanizer with a pompadour hairstyle. He is a narcissistic and an intellectually challenged protagonist.

He always tries to get women to date and is usually unsuccessful.

Who is X?

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Q10. On April 1,2000 The Daily Mail revealed that Esporta Health Clubs had launched a new line of socks, dubbed FatSox, designed to help people lose weight. These revolutionary socks actually sucked body fat out of sweating feet, promising to "banish fat for ever." The American inventor of this weight-loss product, Professor Frank Ellis Elgood, explained that the socks employed a nylon polymer called FloraAstraTetrazine "previously only applied in the nutrition industry." As a person's body heat rose and their blood vessels dilated, the socks drew "excess lipid from the body through the sweat." After having sweated out the fat, the wearer could then simply wash the socks, and the fat, away.

Why weren’t they successful? (Visual to follow)

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It was an April fool’s day hoax.

Q11.• X is a Hindu temple dedicated to lord Shiva and located in

Tamil Nadu. It is one of the largest temples in India and is an example of Tamil architecture during the Chola period. The temple turned 1000 years old in 2010.

• The vimanam(temple tower) is 198 ft (60 m) high and is one of the tallest in the world.

• There is a big statue of Nandi (sacred bull), carved out of a single rock at the entrance. The temple is one of the most visited tourist attractions in Tamil Nadu.

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Brihadeeswarar Temple

Q12. Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a leading

figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. What was his first pop art series that caused a sensation in the art world.

Because of the eventual popularity of the entire series of similarly themed works, Warhol's reputation grew to the point where he was not only the most-renowned American pop art artist, but also the highest-paid living American artist.

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Campbell's Soup Cans

Q13.• X, from Mumbai, claims to have self-taught himself how to

draw realistic 3D images.• He uses incredibly detailed colour shades to perfectly sketch

everyday objects onto a sheet of blank paper. They are then photographed on a table alongside his pens and pencils.

• In the past 8-10 months, X has been posting his 3D artwork on Instagram, gaining over 60k followers.

• Identify this incredibly talented 20 year old artist.• Following are some of his artworks.

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Sushant S Rane

Q14.FITB This is an image of _____ __ _____ as viewed from space.

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Salar de Uyuni - world's largest salt flat at 10,582 square kilometers . It is located in the Daniel Campos Province in Potosí in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes.

Q15. Identify the logo

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Q16.

Dennis Coles, better known by his stage name _____ _____, is an American rapper and prominent member of the Wu-Tang Clan.

His stage name is the inspiration behind what?

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Snapchat’s logo is named “Ghostface Chillah”, (after Dennis Coles’ stage name “Ghostface Killah”)

Q17.What is shown in the picture?

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Regency TR-1 : World’s first portable transistor radio(First sold it 1954)

Q18.Identify the twitter handle

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Q19.• The gun is one of the best-known early rapid-fire spring

loaded, hand cranked weapons designed by Y.• It is known for its use by the Union forces during the

American Civil War in the 1860s, which was the first time it was employed in combat. Later, it was used again in numerous military conflicts.

• What is truly amazing is the fact that the basic design of this gun is still used in modern military forces.

What is this gun called?(+10 for Y)

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The Gatling Gun Y- Richard Jordan Gatling

Q20.Id the person and his C2f

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Charles M. Schulz: Creator of the most popular comic strip – Peanuts.

Sports Round

Q21.

• X is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch.

• X is controlled by the Y ,the largest sporting organisation in Ireland. It is the most popular sport in Ireland in terms of attendance with almost 80,000 people piling up into a sports stadium in Dublin to watch the annual culmination.

• X is one of the few remaining strictly amateur sports in the world, with players, coaches, and managers prohibited from receiving any form of payment.

ID X & Y

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X - Gaelic football Y - Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA)

Q22.ID the girl and her C2f.

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18 year old Cricketer Shradha Vaishnav who is hearing and speech impaired. She recently entered the Chattisgarh women’s cricket team , making her the first physically challenged player in a regular women’s team in the country.

Q23.

• The West Indies cricket team toured England in the 2000 cricket season. West Indies played five tests against England.

• The 2nd test (also the 100th test match played at Lord’s) saw something unique.

• This feat was repeated 11 years later in the famous Cape Town test where South Africa bowled out Australia for 47.

What was the unique thing that happened?

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The second day saw a part of all four innings: the final ball of West Indies' first innings, the entire England first innings and the entire West Indies second innings, and the first seven balls of England's second innings.

Q24.

Alistair Cook – 294 Runs, Edgbaston 2011; Michael Clarke – 329*Runs, Sydney 2012; Brendon McCullum – 302 Runs, Wellington 2014.

What was common in their knocks?

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They were all dropped by Ishant Sharma early on in their innings.

Q25.ID X• X was a Northern Irish professional footballer who in 1968

won the European Footballer of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year.

• X was one of the first celebrity footballers, earning the nickname "El Beatle" in 1966, but his subsequent extravagant lifestyle led to various problems, most notably alcoholism, which he suffered from for the rest of his life.

• He said of his career: "I spent a lot of money on booze, birds [women] and fast cars – the rest I just squandered“

• He died in 2005, age 59, due to complications from the immunosuppressive drugs he needed to take after a liver transplant.

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George Best

Q26. • X is an English former football referee and is considered the

best English referee of the last 25 years in a list maintained by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS).

• At the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, he refereed two matches successfully. In his third game, he committed an error.

• X retired from refereeing international tournament finals matches citing his error in the match.

ID X and what was the error that he committed?

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X – Graham Poll Error committed - he cautioned (yellow card) the

same player three times before sending him off.

Q27. What is being talked about?

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Q28.ID X• X is a former West Indian cricketer who often courted

controversy. • Dependent on marijuana from a young age, he was almost

thrown out of the 1975–76 tour to Australia, only saved by the intervention of the sympathetic senior player Lance Gibbs.

• His drug habit was reportedly fuelled by a tour of India where he found drugs easily available.

• X received a life ban in 1983.He now lives in poverty at his childhood home in Bridgetown.

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David Murray

Q29.Connect• J Navle• N Jeoomal• Wazir Ali• CK Nayudu• S Colah• S Nazir Ali• P Palia• Lall Singh• Jahangir Khan• Amar Singh• M Nissar

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Squad for India’s first test match that was played at Lord’s in 1932.(England won by 158 runs)

Q30. Trischa Zorn is a swimmer from United States. Blind

from birth, she competes in Paralympic swimming. What is her claim to fame?

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Trischa Zorn is the most successful athlete in the

history of the Paralympic Games.She has won a total of 55 medals:

41 gold, 9 silver and 5 bronze

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