hansraj freshers' final

Finals.

3 Rounds.

Round 1: Infinite Pounce/Bounce. 20 Questions clockwise.

Round 2: Differential. 6 Questions.

Round 3: Infinite Pounce/Bounce. 20 Questions counter-clockwise.

Rounds.

Oh Ho, POUNCE-ite.

In 2010, it was discovered that male mouse urine

contains a specific pheromone that invokes inherent sexual attraction by stimulating memory of the female mice thereby conditioning them to the airborne odors of an individual scent owner. The protein itself was named after the archetypal cold and seemingly arrogant romantic hero, the protagonist of a Regency era novel. What protein/character?

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

Darcin/Mr. Darcy

Nilambur is a town in the Malappuram district of Kerala

which is home to Conolly’s Plot, the oldest teak plantation in the world and the Teak Museum, the only one of its kind in the entire world. Nilambur’s teak wood has traditionally been used by a 108 year-old company that manufactures most of its products on special orders. Wood from a single tree is used exclusively in a single product so as to maintain uniformity of grain, colour and age. Each item is said to feature up to 41 different wooden panels and teak from a single tree pushes the price tag up by at least 2 lakh. What company?

Each car’s wooden interior would use the Nilambur

teakwood.

Rolls-Royce

In 1941 Jake LaMotta was rejected for military

service because of mastoid operations on one of his ears. He started professional boxing and rose to fame after defeating Sugar Ray Robinson in 1943 and went on to win the World Middleweight Championship in 1949 successfully defending it twice in the following year before finally losing it to Robinson in 1951. His autobiography Y (1970), was made into a famous Oscar winning 1980 Martin Scorsese film. In 1990 he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Y?

Jake LaMotta; Raging Bull

When he was called up to replace the Gujarat captain

who was injured on the morning of the match he scored hundreds in both innings of his debut, becoming the second man after Arthur Morris to do so. He led India to a series win against England in 1961-62 and captained the side to West Indies the same season. However, this Indian Captain never played a test for India after being hit on the skull by a delivery from the West Indies fast bowler Charlie Griffith. Who are we talking about?

Nari Contractor

What is this ritual? Funda

Satanic ritual to convert deceased person (in grave)

homosexual. Was done to protest Westboro Baptist Church activities – convert the founder’s deceased mother into a lesbian.

In 1956, Al Fieldstein took over Y magazine. He recalls ;

―This kid was the perfect example of what I wanted. So I put an ad in the New York Times that said, "National magazine wants portrait artist for special project." In walked this little old guy in his sixties named Norman Mingo, and he said, ―What national magazine is this?‖ I said ―Y,‖ and he said, ―Goodbye.‖ I told him to wait, and I dragged out all these examples and postcards of this idiot kid, and I said, ―I want a definitive portrait of this kid. I don't want him to look like an idiot—I want him to be loveable and have an intelligence behind his eyes. But I want him to have this devil-may-care attitude, someone who can maintain a sense of humor while the world is collapsing around him.” I adapted and used that portrait, and that was the beginning.‖ Which kid is being talked about?

ALFRED E NEUMAN

MAD MAGAZINE

Who’s in this picture? put Fundae.

That was the real Lorraine Warren and Anabelle

doll.

The Conjuring is based on it.

The Conjuring

X, debuting in 1991, was one of very few shows that

pictured observant, identifiably Jewish families. Jewish and Christian religion groups gave the show high praises for their special holiday episodes. Nonetheless, at one point the Anti-Defamation League and The Washington Post editorial page castigated the series for its depiction of Tommy Pickles' maternal grandparents, who purportedly looked like Nazi-era depictions of Jews. Steven Spielberg described X as "sort of a TV Peanuts of our time."

Rugrats

X has been noted to cause the brain to involuntarily

picture combinations even when the player is not playing (called the X effect). According to research from Dr. Richard Haier, prolonged X activity can also lead to more efficient brain activity during play. Players lose a typical game of X when they can no longer keep up with the increasing speed and eventually Top Out. What’s X?

Tetris

FFC Frankfurt is the most successful club in the

competitions history, winning the title 3 times. The reigning champions of the competition are VfLWolfsburg, after beating Olympique Lyon 1-0 in the 2013 Final. And so far, Germany is the only country, which has clubs who have won this version and its counterpart in the same year. What?

He has become a cult comic character in Indian

cinema and has gathered a large fan following. Aniruddha Guha of DNA called it the best character portrayed by X. "Y, aapka ghagra," the lead character, tells him at one point, referring to his black cape. "Uthhata hoon", is his straigthforward reply. His attire is a mix of a superhero and a pirate. X and Y?

X: Shakti Kapoor, Y: Crime Master Gogo

John Nettleship was X’s chemistry teacher in school. So it

makes a bit of sense that X would use her former chemistry teacher as the inspiration. Nettleship did not know he was the inspiration for the character until the films came out and his students, along with his wife, pieced things together. X’s mother actually worked as an assistant in the chemistry department under Nettleship, so we can’t help but wonder what the real life professor, who died in 2011, thought about the revelation that his character was in love with the protagonist’s mother. This was an inspiration for which character?

X: JK Rowling; Severus Snape

Like the thylacine, Xs were once extremely abundant (a

single flock could number in the millions) and they were found all across the Eastern and Central United States in the 1800s. But through the unfortunate combination of being both delicious and easy to kill, they were also hunted by the millions, and despite conservation efforts in the early 1900s, there soon weren’t enough to maintain a sustainable population.

Right now, Xs are the most likely candidate for de-extinction. They have two important things going for them: We have relatively well-preserved DNA samples, and there are other closely-related species that can serve as a surrogate.

Homing/Messenger Pigeons

This is the star of India Insignia , a variant of it is still

used by the BCCI as its logo as well as the royal yacht club Bombay. What was it originally used for ?

India’s Emblem during the British rule.

While we may attribute X cooking to the Japanese, it

was actually a Portuguese innovation. Evidence lies in old Moorish cookbooks from the 13th century that feature X recipes. The word ―X‖ is actually thought to have derived from the Portuguese word ―Y‖ which means ―Lent.‖ This makes sense, as the Catholic population would eat fish on Fridays and eventually decided to fry it (possibly because everything tastes better when it’s fried).

Give X.

X: Tempura, Y: Temporas

The X is from Irish mythology and are usually seen

as female spirits. They were considered to be omens of death and were believed to have come from the ―otherworld‖. They are generally thought to be remnants of an ancient Celtic pagan religion in which they were minor gods, spirits, or ancestors. In English they are often referred to as fairies. According to legend, Xs will wander around the outside of a house wailing when someone inside is about to die.

Banshee

X is a small town in Canada named after the Roman god

of fire, not pointy-eared aliens. And then Y arrived. After the show became a global phenomenon, X decided to get itself some of that sweet nerd money. Since then, the town has developed Y fever, building a giant Enterprise and a Y walk of fame. Even people from the show took note. Zwanted one of the earlier Y films to be screened in X, and when it was discovered that the town didn’t have a theatre, they flew hundreds of residents to the premiere. The town even holds an annual day commemorating Y’s protagonist.

X: Vulcan

Y: Star Trek

Z: Leonard Nimoy

Annual Spock Day celebrated.

In the Middle Ages and late 1700s, being sent to work in

Spanish mines containing X formations was widely considered a death sentence because X was the one of the most toxic minerals to handle on Earth.

The name of the crystal means dragons blood, and it is the main ore of Y. Forming near volcanos and sulfur deposits, the bright red crystals signal danger of the worst kind. X may release pure Y if disturbed or heated, causing tremors, loss of sensation and death.

Give me X and Y.

Cinnabar; Mercury

This is a painting by Henri Matisse called La Danse. How can we associate it to

sports?

Rio 2016 Olympics

The US Army, instead of spending millions developing

controls for their devices, use Xs to control their drones. Since they’re so well designed and intuitive, there’s virtually no point in using anything else. In a British Army recruitment video, an eagle-eyed viewer noticed a split-second shot in which a soldier uses what appears to be an X to control a drone. When he wrote to the Army asking why, they claimed that it wasn’t an X. They just so happened to invent/use something that was exactly the same because it was better than whatever alternative they happened to have at hand.

X-Box Contollers

2n + 5 Differential format. Where n is the number of

teams that don’t answer. At least one team must get it right, for this to apply.

If 1 team gets it then +15

If 2 teams get it then +13 for each

If 3 teams get it then +11 for each

If 4 teams get it then + 9 for each

If 5 teams get it then +7 for each

If no one gets it, 0 for each

Differential Round

The word Y had started being used in the sense we use it

today because of its origin.

Before the invention of guttering roofs were made with wide ______, overhangs, so that rain water would fall away from the house to stop the walls and foundations being damaged. This area was known as the Y. The large overhang gave good cover for those who wished to lurk in shadows and listen to others’ conversations. Since the area under the ______ was considered part of the householder’s property you could be fined under Anglo-Saxon law for being under them with the intention of spying. Y?

This perpetuates the name of the eighteenth-century physician Franz X of Vienna. He believed that a magnetic force flowed from the stars to act on us all and that diseases were caused by blockages stopping the magnetic fluid flowing through the body. He called the force ―animal magnetism‖, a term we still sometimes use for people with strong personalities.

In essence, X was, without realising it, putting his patients into a trance and giving them post-hypnotic suggestions to clear up psychosomatic ailments. His name thus entered language and became an alternative term for Hypnotism. What term?

Back in the 14th century though, Xs were the

backbone of agriculture. That is to say, they were the guys who worked on farms. The word X is actually an old French word that pulls its roots from Latin for ―country house‖.

Over time, the meaning of the word gradually changed: Farm workers were poor, practically peasants. Peasants, being poor, are untrustworthy. Untrustworthy people commit crimes. And eventually we ended up with the modern day definition of X.

Ironically the word is derived from the name of one

of the great scholars of the middle ages, John X Scotus a philosopher and theologian whose thinking was so profound he was given the nickname Doctor Subtillis, the Subtle Doctor. His teaching remained influential from the 14th century until the Renaissance when more modern theories gained prominence. Those who clung desperately to his teaching were mocked for their seeming inability to modernize, or learn at all. They became Y and a new word was born. Y?

Though, one example of the use of the phrase would

be in the 1994 cult classic X where it meant to convey something entirely different, what common phrase usually when used by someone, conveys their desire to be excused from an uncomfortable or awkward conversation or situation?

The hero Theseus was given a ball of thread to help

him find his way out of the labyrinth of Minos. By following the trail of thread he left behind him he was able to navigate his way to the exit. The word Xthen became associated with anything which might hint at the solution. X?

EXCHANGE SHEETS

ANSWERS

The word Y had started being used in the sense we use it

today because of its origin.

Before the invention of guttering roofs were made with wide ______, overhangs, so that rain water would fall away from the house to stop the walls and foundations being damaged. This area was known as the Y. The large overhang gave good cover for those who wished to lurk in shadows and listen to others’ conversations. Since the area under the ______ was considered part of the householder’s property you could be fined under Anglo-Saxon law for being under them with the intention of spying. Y?

The Blanks were called Eaves

EAVESDROPPING

This perpetuates the name of the eighteenth-century

physician Franz X of Vienna. He believed that a magnetic force flowed from the stars to act on us all and that diseases were caused by blockages stopping the magnetic fluid flowing through the body. He called the force ―animal magnetism‖, a term we still sometimes use for people with strong personalities.

In essence, X was, without realising it, putting his patients into a trance and giving them post-hypnotic suggestions to clear up psychosomatic ailments. His name thus entered language and became an alternative term for Hypnotism. What term?

MESMERIZE

Back in the 14th century though, Xs were the

backbone of agriculture. That is to say, they were the guys who worked on farms. The word X is actually an old French word that pulls its roots from Latin for ―country house‖.

Over time, the meaning of the word gradually changed: Farm workers were poor, practically peasants. Peasants, being poor, are untrustworthy. Untrustworthy people commit crimes. And eventually we ended up with the modern day definition of X.

VILLAIN from Villa

Ironically the word is derived from the name of one

of the great scholars of the middle ages, John X Scotus a philosopher and theologian whose thinking was so profound he was given the nickname Doctor Subtillis, the Subtle Doctor. His teaching remained influential from the 14th century until the Renaissance when more modern theories gained prominence. Those who clung desperately to his teaching were mocked for their seeming inability to modernize, or learn at all. They became Y and a new word was born. Y?

John Duns Scotus

DUNCE from Duns

Though, one example of the use of the phrase would

be in the 1994 cult classic X where it meant to convey something entirely different, what common phrase usually when used by someone, conveys their desire to be excused from an uncomfortable or awkward conversation or situation?

1994 classic – Pulp Fiction. Mia Wallace used it to

excuse herself to snort cocaine.

To Powder one’s nose

The hero Theseus was given a ball of thread to help

him find his way out of the labyrinth of Minos. By following the trail of thread he left behind him he was able to navigate his way to the exit. The word Xthen became associated with anything which might hint at the solution. X?

These balls of thread were called Clews. From there,

it is, that we get the word Clue.

CLUE

Shut up and Infinite Bounce

X, known as Gryzor in Europe and Oceania, is a run and gun

action game developed originally released as a coin-operated arcade game on February 20, 1987. A home version was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988, along with ports for various computer formats, including the MSX2. In X, the player controls one of two armed military commandos named Bill "Mad Dog" Rizer and Lance "Scorpion" Bean, who are sent on a mission to neutralize a terrorist group called the Red Falcon Organization that is planning to take over the Earth.

The Japanese versions sets the game in the year 2633 on the fictional "Galuga archipelago" near New Zealand, whereas the manual for the American NES version sets the game during the present in an unnamed South American island.

X?

This is one of those myths that have become incredibly

ingrained, due mainly to the popular saying that causes us to basically accept it as fact without question. We have all heard that when someone doesn’t want to deal with an issue, that they are ―_____________________‖, which is supposedly something the birds do when danger is near. While ostriches do tend to run off if they feel that danger is approaching, they have a powerful kick to defend themselves. It turns out that while ostriches may hold their heads low in an attempt to be harder to see, they certainly do not ______________________.

Ostriches bury their heads in the sand

X is a Sanskrit term – used to describe the invading

tribes and horse tamers of 1700BC, who believed themselves superior to those that they defeated . After a few generations, people started applying it to the social or ethical condition of being superior.

In the 19th century, Max Muller modernized the term when he tried to describe the Indo-Germanic race, though later ironically he claimed that such a race never existed. This term popularized in the first half of the 20th century. Give term and put funda.

Hitler and the Nazis claimed that they belonged to

the Aryan master-race. Blonde, blue-eyed and fair skinned; congenitally a cut above the rest –especially those with darker skins.

X: Aryan

X and Bill Laswell founded the World Music

Supergroup: Tabla Beat Science.

X’s was born to a legendary musician Y who was a maestro in the same field as him and who usually accompanied yet another legend who died last yeatin December.

X has composed, performed and acted as music advisor for the Malayalam film Vanaprastham and also features on the soundtracks of Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Bernardo Bertolucci's Little Buddha, and other films.

Give X and Y.

X: Zakir Hussain; Y: UstadAllah Rakha

Italy Germany India Pakistan China Japan France Greece Spain Hungary Sweden

Connect with Barry Evans.

Mind Your Language

In the U.S. state of Nebraska, State Senator Ernie

Chambers filed a suit in 2008 against X, seeking a permanent injunction against X's harmful activities, as an effort to publicize the issue of public access to the court system. On July 30, 2008, local media sources reported the Douglas County District Court was going to deny Chambers' lawsuit because Chambers had failed to notify the defendant. However, on August 1, Chambers was granted a court date of August 5 in order to proceed with his lawsuit. However, a judge finally did throw out the case, saying X was not properly served due to his unlisted home address.

God

X were German academics, linguists, cultural

researchers, lexicographers and authors who together collected and published folklore. They are among the most well-known storytellers of folk tales, popularizing stories such as "Cinderella" (Aschenputtel), "The Frog Prince" (Der Froschkönig), "Hansel and Gretel" (Hänsel und Gretel), "Rapunzel", "Rumpelstiltskin" (Rumpelstilzchen), and "Snow White" (Schneewittchen). Their first collection of folk tales, Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen), was published in 1812. X?.

In the 1980s, a grave of X was "discovered" in the

graveyard of St. Peter's Parish Church in Woolton, Liverpool, and a few yards away from that, another tombstone with the last name "McKenzie" scrawled across it. During their teenage years, two band members spent time sunbathing there, within earshot of where the two had met for the first time during a fete in 1957. Many years later, one stated that the strange coincidence between reality and the lyrics could be a product of his subconscious, rather than being a meaningless fluke. Who’s X?

Pic. Next Slide

A living legend on his own terms, he has received the

'Officier des Arts et Metiers', the highest award for arts given by the French government, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Italy. He turned down the honorary Padma Shri award from the Indian government in the 1970s; in 2004, he accepted the prestigious Padma Bhushan award from the President of India. On 3 May 2012, he was selected to be honoured with the DadasahebPhalke Award, India's highest award in cinema given annually by the Indian Govt. He was one of the favoritesof Satyajit Ray and holds the record for the number of appearances by a leading actor in the film of an internationally acclaimed director. Who are we talking about?

Soumitra Chatterjee

X’s trademark instrument was a

rectangular electric guitar that he developed himself and played in thousands of concerts. It turns out he was jumping around on stage one night, and his massive Gibson L5 shifted and hit him right in the nuts. The next day, he designed the smaller (safer) guitar we’ll forever associate with him. His name was re-popularized a few years back and again this year in August. X? Funda?

Obama’s dog was

named Bo in 2009 after Bo Diddley.

Bo Diddley

X, whose name appears in every strip in Morse code, and

who fled from Cuba just before Castro took over the free press, considered himself a spy of sorts, and drew the cartoon as a satire of the Cold War and a criticism of its pointlessness. By 1990, health complications impeded his work on the strip, and other editors of MAD took over the task. He passed away on February 24, 1998. Y is possibly the longest running feature in MAD magazine, and the hilarious battles of wit between the ―protagonists/antagonists‖ are still ongoing in the pages of the satirical magazine.

Spy vs Spy

In the old theatres a mixture of Calcium Carbonate

and Phosphorous was burnt used to produce effects on stage. Which phrase originates from this?

―In the limelight‖

In the 18th century, wealthy visitors used to enjoy

the mineral springs and baths in a village in South East Belgium near the German Border. Its become a common practice amongst individuals of the 20th and 21st century. Which village gave its name to this?

Spa

X(Procedure of preparation involved first boiling

and then baking) was first made in Krakow, Poland in the 1600s and was later popularized in North America and Canada. The hole could be used to thread string or dowels through groups of X, allowing for easier handling and transportation and more appealing seller displays. Canadian astronaut Gregory Chamitoff is first to have taken a batch of 18 Xs to space during his 2008 mission to the International Space Station.

Bagel

In computer networks, a X is a computer system or

an application that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other such systems. A client connects to the Xserver, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resource available from a different server and the X server evaluates the request as a way to simplify and control its complexity. In Delhi university we use the word in a slightly different context. What ?

Proxy

If you have been following the progress of X in this

year’s edition of the IPL, you may have noticed a similarity between Y, the 2003 book by Michael Lewis that inspired the Academy Award-nominated film of the same name, and the way the franchise have gone about their work. In a nutshell, X achieved much success - especially at their fortress of the _______ Stadium where they won five out of five - by putting faith in a number of low-cost but highly effective players.

X and Y?

X: RR; Y: Moneyball

Connect

Pussy Riot

While it is illegal to take rocks out of the country,

some tourists bring a piece of X home with them anyway. Perhaps because it is a sacred tribal ground, people who bring a piece of X away from the site are said to experience the curse of misfortune. As a result, people regularly mail their rocks back to Ywith letters of apology.

Ayer’s Rock/Uluru

―At first I could see nothing, the hot air escaping

from the chamber causing the candle flame to flicker, but presently, as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold –everywhere the glint of gold. For the moment – an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by – I was struck dumb with amazement.‖ What breakthrough discovery is being talked about?

Tutankhamun’s tomb

Some Jewish and non-Jewish fans of this football club X

adopted "Yiddo, Yiddo!" as a battle cry and often identify themselves as "Yid Army". While such usage remains controversial, for the overwhelming majority of X's supporters, it is used with pride. Some Jewish supporters of X use it with a political consciousness of the club as a bastion against racism and anti-semitism. For visiting teams' supporters the Jewish connection continues to be bolstered by the large numbers of - easily identifiable -Hassidic Orthodox Jews living near X's stadium; but in practice there is no evidence of Hassidic Jews attending football matches. There is also a theory that a this club has the financial backing of the Jew mafia.

Tottenham Hotspur