Finals

8 questions - answers to be written down

+5 per correct answer, no negatives

Each question shows the endemic range of a creature

One text clue per question

Additional verbal clue if all teams fine with it

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Bird

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Bird

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Inspiration behind the name of a company

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Inspiration behind the name of a company

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Also a style of facial hair

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Also a style of facial hair

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Brothers from another mother

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Brothers from another mother

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A sports term very rarely seen

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A sports term very rarely seen

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My chemistry teacher had me believe this is the only animal of its kind, TiL there are 4 others

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My chemistry teacher had me believe this is the only animal of its kind, TiL there are 4 others

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Nickname of a famous sportsperson

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Nickname of a famous sportsperson

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Wikipedia says “Virtually all heroes in Greek mythology fight or kill a X at one point.

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Wikipedia says “Virtually all heroes in Greek mythology fight or kill a X at one point.

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9 questions on infinite bounce, clockwise

+10 per correct answer, no negatives Additional verbal clue if all teams fine with it

InfiniteBounce

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In the 1999 Lok Sabha elections X, then the MP from Jamshedpur, contested from Rajgarh constituency and lost to Lakshman Singh, the brother of Digvijay Singh.

In the same election, Y won from the Barh constituency for the 5th consecutive term.

Both have had highly contrasting political fortunes since but I’ve heard them prop up together in conversations because of something they share. Name X and Y.

X - Nitish Bharadwaj, Y - Nitish Kumar

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In the 1999 Lok Sabha elections X, then the MP from Jamshedpur, contested from Rajgarh constituency and lost to Lakshman Singh, the brother of Digvijay Singh.

In the same election, Y won from the Barh constituency for the 5th consecutive term.

Both have had highly contrasting political fortunes since but I’ve heard them prop up together in conversations because of something they share. Name X and Y.

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This word has multiple uses in english language.

It could denote a particular shape, a non-SI unit, an exam and a type of business establishment among other things.

But in Aramaic, it means ‘son’. Where are you most likely to have heard the use of this word for its Aramaic meaning?

Bar Mitzvah

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This word has multiple uses in english language.

It could denote a particular shape, a non-SI unit, an exam and a type of business establishment among other things.

But in Aramaic, it means ‘son’. Where are you most likely to have heard the use of this word for its Aramaic meaning?

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What word in English derives eventually, by way of imperial British corruption of the word’s descendants in later Indian languages, from the Tulu word ‘goni’, meaning ‘thread’ or ‘fibre’?

Gunny, as in ‘gunny sack’

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What word in English derives eventually, by way of imperial British corruption of the word’s descendants in later Indian languages, from the Tulu word ‘goni’, meaning ‘thread’ or ‘fibre’?

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This is an extract from a recent book titled ‘Me ______, Me Laxmi’:

I went to Byculla where the head of Shabina’s Lashkar gharana, Lata Naik, held court. Nervous and unsure, I finally gathered the courage to ask those assembled there, “I want to become a chela. How much is the fee?” To my surprise, they all burst out laughing. Lata guru, who went on to become my guru, said, “There is no fee, child. If you want to become my chela, come.” My initiation ceremony, the reet, followed soon after…

Fill in the blank in the title of the book.

Hijra

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This is an extract from a recent book titled ‘Me ______, Me Laxmi’:

I went to Byculla where the head of Shabina’s Lashkar gharana, Lata Naik, held court. Nervous and unsure, I finally gathered the courage to ask those assembled there, “I want to become a chela. How much is the fee?” To my surprise, they all burst out laughing. Lata guru, who went on to become my guru, said, “There is no fee, child. If you want to become my chela, come.” My initiation ceremony, the reet, followed soon after…

Fill in the blank in the title of the book.

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Found by a fisherman off the coast of Palawan Island, Philippines, this 35-kg object was kept by him as a ‘good luck charm’ in his home until a fire earlier this year forced him to move. He then handed it to a local tourism officer, who brought it to the notice of the rest of the world. What is it?

The largest pearl in the world. Valued at around $100 million, the pearl is estimated to be worth $65 million more than the pearl

currently listed in the books as the record holder, the Pearl of Allah, which was also found off Palawan.

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Found by a fisherman off the coast of Palawan Island, Philippines, this 35-kg object was kept by him as a ‘good luck charm’ in his home until a fire earlier this year forced him to move. He then handed it to a local tourism officer, who brought it to the notice of the rest of the world. What is it?

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Those of you who are heavily into the Christian Bale Batman reboot, might remember this character, who plays a minor part in ‘Batman Begins’. In what role did the actor playing the part gain much greater prominence six years later?

Jack Gleeson is best known for his portrayal of Joffrey Baratheon in ‘Game of Thrones’

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Those of you who are heavily into the Christian Bale Batman reboot, might remember this character, who plays a minor part in ‘Batman Begins’. In what role did the actor playing the part gain much greater prominence six years later?

Annie Besant

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• Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History (1876)• The Law of Population (1877)• My Path to Atheism (1878, 3rd ed 1885)• Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, And As It Should Be: A Plea for Reform (1878)• Why I Am a Socialist (1886)• Karma (1895)• The Ancient Wisdom (1897)• Dharma (1898)• The Religious Problem in India (1901)• Esoteric Christianity (1905 2nd ed)• A Study in Consciousness: A contribution to the science of psychology. (ca 1907, rpt 1918)• Occult Chemistry with C. W. Leadbeater (1908) • An Introduction to Yoga (1908)• A Study in Karma (1912)• Initiation: The Perfecting of Man (1912) • Man's Life in This and Other Worlds (1913) • The Future of Indian Politics 1922• The Life and Teaching of Muhammad (1932) • Memory and Its Nature (1935)

Whose (incomplete) Bibliography?

Annie Besant

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• Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History (1876)• The Law of Population (1877)• My Path to Atheism (1878, 3rd ed 1885)• Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, And As It Should Be: A Plea for Reform (1878)• Why I Am a Socialist (1886)• Karma (1895)• The Ancient Wisdom (1897)• Dharma (1898)• The Religious Problem in India (1901)• Esoteric Christianity (1905 2nd ed)• A Study in Consciousness: A contribution to the science of psychology. (ca 1907, rpt 1918)• Occult Chemistry with C. W. Leadbeater (1908) • An Introduction to Yoga (1908)• A Study in Karma (1912)• Initiation: The Perfecting of Man (1912) • Man's Life in This and Other Worlds (1913) • The Future of Indian Politics 1922• The Life and Teaching of Muhammad (1932) • Memory and Its Nature (1935)

Whose (incomplete) Bibliography?

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The word ‘Lens’ derives from the name of another common item since the lenses in our eyes resemble the shape of that item. Which item?

Lentil

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The word ‘Lens’ derives from the name of another common item since the lenses in our eyes resemble the shape of that item. Which item?

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Since the Nero Wolfe novels by American mystery fiction writer Rex Stout do not elaborate on their principal protagonist’s origins other than the fact that he was born in Montenegro, many researchers have tried to come up with fictional backstories for him. One of the more interesting theories was propounded by John D. Clark in 1956, and states that Wolfe was the result of an affair between X and Y in Montenegro in 1892. This fits in with Wolfe’s stated age in the novels and X’s own fictional history, since X disappeared between 1891 and 1894, and Y appeared in the X universe in 1891. Also, in the Wolfe novels, a portrait of X hangs on a wall in Wolfe’s office, suggesting that in the Nero Wolfe universe, X is a real character, not a fictional one. Who are X & Y?

Sherlock Holmes & Irene Adler

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Since the Nero Wolfe novels by American mystery fiction writer Rex Stout do not elaborate on their principal protagonist’s origins other than the fact that he was born in Montenegro, many researchers have tried to come up with fictional backstories for him. One of the more interesting theories was propounded by John D. Clark in 1956, and states that Wolfe was the result of an affair between X and Y in Montenegro in 1892. This fits in with Wolfe’s stated age in the novels and X’s own fictional history, since X disappeared between 1891 and 1894, and Y appeared in the X universe in 1891. Also, in the Wolfe novels, a portrait of X hangs on a wall in Wolfe’s office, suggesting that in the Nero Wolfe universe, X is a real character, not a fictional one. Who are X & Y?

5 questions on infinite bounce, anti - clockwise Each question has 2 parts

+10 per correct answer for the first team giving it First team to give both correct answers gets +20 if they

go for ‘Double’, if not +5 per repeated answer -5 for a wrong attempt of Double

DoubleTrouble

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X’s wikipedia page describes him thus “Easily recognizable for his beard and headband, X became the symbol of cool for a whole generation of football supporters.”

But his swag went well beyond the football field. Addressing a crowd of 2 million people gathered for a free democracy movement, he is reported to have said that if direct presidential elections weren’t accepted by the regime, he’d go play in Italy.

X enjoys the company of W.G.Grace, Ali Bacher, Roger Bannister and a few others in a very small club. What is common to all of them besides being world-class sportspersons?

X - Socrates Sportspersons who were also Physicians

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X’s wikipedia page describes him thus “Easily recognizable for his beard and headband, X became the symbol of cool for a whole generation of football supporters.”

But his swag went well beyond the football field. Addressing a crowd of 2 million people gathered for a free democracy movement, he is reported to have said that if direct presidential elections weren’t accepted by the regime, he’d go play in Italy.

X enjoys the company of W.G.Grace, Ali Bacher, Roger Bannister and a few others in a very small club. What is common to all of them besides being world-class sportspersons?

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X had an extremely successful career in Hindi cinema. But things started going downhill in the 1980’s as he was involved in a series of flops. His luck changed drastically with a super-hit film in 1994, but as luck would have it, he passed away before the film even released. He went on to win a Filmfare award for the film in 1995. Y came to close to joining X as a posthumous winner in the same category at the 2005 Filmfare awards but missed out. Name X and Y.

X - R.D.Burman Y - Madan Mohan

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X had an extremely successful career in Hindi cinema. But things started going downhill in the 1980’s as he was involved in a series of flops. His luck changed drastically with a super-hit film in 1994, but as luck would have it, he passed away before the film even released. He went on to win a Filmfare award for the film in 1995. Y came to close to joining X as a posthumous winner in the same category at the 2005 Filmfare awards but missed out. Name X and Y.

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Here is a dialogue from the last scene of a F.R.I.E.N.D.S. episode and another from a scene of the next episode. FITB.

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Here is a dialogue from the last scene of a F.R.I.E.N.D.S. episode and another from a scene of the next episode. FITB.

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Robert G. Heft was studying in the Lancaster High School in Ohio in 1958 when he submitted a design for a school project, for which his teacher, Sydney Pratt, gave him a ‘B-‘. A year later, after the design was adopted by X, Pratt revisited the grading as promised and gave Heft an ‘A’. What did Heft design?

Haliaeetus leucocephalus has the geographic range as shown here.How do we better know this creature?

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Robert G. Heft was studying in the Lancaster High School in Ohio in 1958 when he submitted a design for a school project, for which his teacher, Sydney Pratt, gave him a ‘B-‘. A year later, after the design was adopted by X, Pratt revisited the grading as promised and gave Heft an ‘A’. What did Heft design?

Haliaeetus leucocephalus has the geographic range as shown here. How do we better know this creature?

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This is a Shankar Tucker mashup of 2 songs. The first is a Bollywood film picturized on X while the other is an English song sung by Y. Both X and Y started their careers in their late teens. While Y got almost immediate success, X had to endure 4 years of failure before achieving stardom. Name X and Y.

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This is a Shankar Tucker mashup of 2 songs. The first is a Bollywood film picturized on X while the other is an English song sung by Y. Both X and Y started their careers in their late teens. While Y got almost immediate success, X had to endure 4 years of failure before achieving stardom. Name X and Y.

Madhuri Dixit, Adele

6 questions on infinite bounce, anti -clockwise

+10 per correct answer, no negatives Additional verbal clue if all teams fine with it

InfiniteBounce

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India’s women’s water polo team was very keen to participate at the 2010 Asian games. However, the team was so weak that the federation was not keen to even sponsor their tickets to Guangzhou. However at the last moment they got the unlikeliest of sponsors that helped them to make it to the games, only to concede 96 goals in their 3 games scoring only 6 finishing 4th. Who sponsored them and why?

Chinese Water polo Association

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India’s women’s water polo team was very keen to participate at the 2010 Asian games. However, the team was so weak that the federation was not keen to even sponsor their tickets to Guangzhou. However at the last moment they got the unlikeliest of sponsors that helped them to make it to the games, only to concede 96 goals in their 3 games scoring only 6 finishing 4th. Who sponsored them and why?

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Connect

Architects

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Connect

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In the midst of growing racism in post-Brexit Britain, many residents of the UK have joined a campaign to let immigrants know they are welcome and ‘safe’ in the country. Started by a London resident who goes by the Twitter handle @cheeah, what common item is worn on their person by people who support the campaign?

Safety Pin

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In the midst of growing racism in post-Brexit Britain, many residents of the UK have joined a campaign to let immigrants know they are welcome and ‘safe’ in the country. Started by a London resident who goes by the Twitter handle @cheeah, what common item is worn on their person by people who support the campaign?

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As the deaths piled up in the Vyapam case, and fingers started being pointed at the CM, what punny names were given to him and his state by critics?

‘Murder’ Pradesh and ‘Shavraj’ Chauhan

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As the deaths piled up in the Vyapam case, and fingers started being pointed at the CM, what punny names were given to him and his state by critics?

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The Museo del Prado in Madrid had, for many decades, what they thought was a decent but worthless copy of Leonardo’s ‘Mona Lisa’, but examination using modern investigation techniques led the museum officials to realise that it was a ‘second original’, created alongside the one in the Louvre. How did they figure this out?

Infrared spectroscopy that was used to look at the ‘under-painting’ of both works revealed that they both had the same changes in composition in the

course of painting. Had the painting been a copy, the copyist would simply have painted the finished version, and could not have known of the

changes in composition that Leonardo executed prior to painting. The Prado version must therefore have been made, step by step, alongside

the original, likely by one of Leonardo’s workshop assistants.

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The Museo del Prado in Madrid had, for many decades, what they thought was a decent but worthless copy of Leonardo’s ‘Mona Lisa’, but examination using modern investigation techniques led the museum officials to realise that it was a ‘second original’, created alongside the one in the Louvre. How did they figure this out?

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In February 2013, this organisation released a 100-page autopsy of a recent debacle titled the ‘Growth and Opportunity Project’ report. It contained a long section of recommendations that would have brought its position closer to its victorious rival’s, but that’s all evidently gone out the window. Which organisation?

The Republican Party in the US (the name of the report has the same initials as its nickname, the Grand Old Party or GOP)

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In February 2013, this organisation released a 100-page autopsy of a recent debacle titled the ‘Growth and Opportunity Project’ report. It contained a long section of recommendations that would have brought its position closer to its victorious rival’s, but that’s all evidently gone out the window. Which organisation?

15 people with a non-exhaustive connect

shown in sets of 3, +10/-5 for identifying all 3 in a set Points as shown on slide

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