FINALE…..

Aviyal - I

Bounce & Pounce format.

+10 for direct as well as for pass.

On pounce, +10 if right, -5 if not.

Catull is an old style serif typeface designed by Gustav Jaeger for the Berthold foundry in 1982.

What makes this one among the most viewed fonts in the world..?

The one-day tour requires booking at least 10 days in advance; among the highlights are feeding catfish, meeting the inhabitants of Opachychi village and touring the ghost village of Pripyat. At the end of the tour security guards at Dytyatky will check you with Geiger counters.

What is the tour destination?

Chernobyl ( Ukraine )

If you were to earn the Golden Bails, Silver Bails or the Bronze Bails award, what profession would you have to be in?

Cricket Umpiring

Logo of which/whose foundation ??

•THE ADVENTURE OF BLANCHED SOLDIER•THE ADVENTURE OF LION’S MANE•THE ADVENTURE OF THE MAZARIN STONE•HIS LAST BOW

These 4 Sherlock stories are different from all the rest due to the fact that these have not been …………………….. ????

Not been narrated by Dr.Watson .

A company called De La Rue Identity Systems, based in Basingstoke, UK, makes a lot of moneyperiodically out of a product called ES/A Purple, containing silver nitrate and tetrahydrofurfurylalcohol. The product has been marketed as far afield as India, Burundi, Rwanda and Bosnia.

What is ES/A Purple used for?

Voter’s ink

Last year, one of the Amul ads that appeared had the tagline

“ Mumbai Indian becomes Delhi Daredevil ! “

What occasion ?

Why so ???

Marc Seguin, engineer Pierre Simon Laplace, mathematician Antoine Lavoisier, chemist Joseph Louis Lagrange , mathematician Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, chemist Augustin Louis Cauchy, mathematician Charles Adolphe Wurtz, chemist ……

These are a few of the 72 French names to have received a unique distinction. What is this distinction?

Names on Eiffel Tower

In 1987, John Knoll wrote an image viewer called Display. His brother, Thomas Knoll was quite impressed with it, and the two brothers collaborated to spruce it up into a full-fledged image editor called ImagePro. This name did not last long, and with a changed name, the brothers gave a demo in Silicon Valley, and thus began this product's journey.

Identify the product.

Photoshop

Name ‘em out !

Each question has 3 unknowns in it – X,Y & Z.

+10 for one, +15 for two, +20 for all three

Normal passing , No negatives

Nandighosha has 16 wheels each of 7 foot diameter and is 23 cubits high. Taladhwaja has 14 wheels each of 7 foot diameter and is 22 cubits high. Darpadalana has 12 wheels each of 7 foot diameter and is 21 cubits high. They can be seen at X. Y, an alternative for Nandighosha (supposedly) inspired the creation of the English word Z.

Gimme X, Y, Z

X is one of Y’s biggest hit songs, and it was dedicated to the lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong’s father, who died of throat cancer when he was a child. In 2005, X became a tribute song to the victims of a national disaster of the U.S, although the disaster happened in august.

Gimme X,Y,Z .

A & B were once married.

In 2010, they came face-to-face as a part of their professional matters, and Y triumphed eventually.

Critic Noam Sheizaf said - “ C and D together, you understand that B actually thinks that in the more than 11 years of wars in three countries, the sole and only victims were Americans.

A,B,C,D ????

X has been in function for about 150 years or so, but accepted its current name in 1969, after the union of 2 major banks.

X is the main sponsor for Y, an EPL team, till the end of this season.

X gets its logo from “the molecule of life”, and the shape has inspired a Pc/laptop giant Z , to name its revolutionary product after it.

X, was born as Allen blah-blah Y .

Y, a city has a world-famous math problem named after it.

This problem, was shown to have no solutions at all as such, by Z, one of the all-time greats in Mathematics.

“ Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me. “

This was X’s remark on Y’s success.X & Y have been stereotyped as the greatest rivals in their field, and this rivalry has been portrayed in the 1999 film “ Pirates of ____ ____ . (Z)

Aviyal - II

Bounce & Pounce format.

+10 for direct as well as for pass.

On pounce, +10 if right, -5 if not.

What object connects the Swiss company Longines to Wikileaks, and is sometimes synonymous with attractiveness?

hourglass

This sporting term comes from a military term for a man trapped behind enemy lines, where he is said to be "away from the strength of hisside".

What term that is generally applied in sports to prevent players from getting an unfair attacking advantage?

Off-side

Hal,Red,Chuck,Bomb,Matilda,Terrence,Bubbles and Stella are a part of my family. My brothers and and me were born as triplets. We are so immensely popular that Salman Rushdie and David Cameron are amongst our biggest fans. Identify me and my brothers.

Inside the ____ is a gas generator containing a mixture of NaN3 (Sodium Azide), KNO3 (Potassium Nitrate) and SiO2 (Silicon Dioxide). When the undesired event happens, an electric circuit is turned on by a sensor, and a series of chemical reactions generate nitrogen gas that fills ____ in 20 to 30 milliseconds. Fill up the blank.

Air bags

Levis Low-rise jeans

Patients suffering from a rupture of the biceps tendon may develop a bulge in their arm. This is the retracted muscle bunched up in the arm, and is sometimes referred to as a _______ Muscle in medical circles because the muscle is more pronounced than normal.

Fill in the blank.

This Japanese city noted in '06 that a certain person had become very well known and decided to use their common name forpublicity. It sent that person a set of the city’s famous lacquer chopsticks, a DVD about the city and a letter wishing him the best.As the person became even more popular in early '08, it began to organize parties, posters and T-shirts in support.

Name the town/person .

If mortals wash away their sins in the River Ganga, where does Ganga- in the guise of a black cow- wash away those sins?

In river Narmada

If experimentation with living organisms is referred to as in-vivo, and that for petri dishes is in-vitro,

what is the corresponding term for experimentation with computers called?

“ in-silico “

Alfred Hitchcock

What nickname is used to refer to the national men's basketball team of New Zealand?

“ Tall – blacks “

Connect !Just connect the pics/clues given .

Bounce & Pounce

+10 direct, +5 pass

+10 on pounce, -5 if wrong

number

5th day

5th June – Environment day5th September – Teacher’s day5th November – Guy Fawkes day

person

Dr. Vainu Bappu

code

A113

MJ – Earth Song

Never played the world cup !

Theme round5 Questions in all.

Answers connected by a theme.

Written round - +10 for each answer, no negatives.

Points 4 Theme - +30/-30 to +10/-10 .

Q:1 : Name the mishap.

Q:2 :

X was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. X began modestly in 1939, but grew to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly US$2 billion (about $26 billion in 2013 dollars). Research and production took place at more than 30 sites across the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.

Q:3 :

“ Sense & Simplicity “ ????

Q:4: Originally called as the Throope College & established in 1891, this university has produced 32 Nobel laurates, 6 Turing medallists & a Fields medallist. Located in Pasadena, its undergrads/grad students went on to be the founders of Hotmail, Intel, Compaq, Matlab …..

Which university ?

Q:5 :

3-letter Latin equivalent for “Hence, proved” ???

1.Challenger disaster

2.Manhattan project

3.Philips

4.Caltech

5.QED

Listopia !Chance to get a max.of 71 points in one hit !

You’ll get as much as you give

No negatives.

16 to 20 +521 to 25 +1026 to 30 +1531 to 35 +2036 to 40 +25All 41 +30

List all the 41 Bharat Ratna awardees !

1. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan2. Chakravarti Rajagopalachari3. C. V. Raman4. Bhagwan Das5. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya6. Jawaharlal Nehru7. Govind Ballabh Pant8. Dhondo Keshav Karve9. B. C. Roy10. Purushottam Das Tandon11. Rajendra Prasad12. Zakir Hussain13. Pandurang Vaman Kane14. Lal Bahadur Shastri15. Indira Gandhi16. V. V. Giri17. K. Kamaraj18. Mother Teresa19. Acharya Vinoba Bhave20. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

21. M. G. Ramachandran22. B. R. Ambedkar23. Nelson Mandela24. Rajiv Gandhi25. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel26. Morarji Desai27. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad28. J. R. D. Tata29. Satyajit Ray30. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam31. Gulzarilal Nanda32. Aruna Asaf Ali33. M. S. Subbulakshmi34. Chidambaram Subramaniam35. Jayaprakash Narayan36. Ravi Shankar37. Amartya Sen38. Gopinath Bordoloi39. Lata Mangeshkar40. Ustad Bismillah Khan41. Pandit Bhimsen Josi

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