mastermind vit - prelims

Mastermind VIT-By-

Tarun RuchandaniAysuhman Ojaswi

Nikhil Ramesh

April 17th, 2013

Rules

•20 Questions. 11-20 are star marked questions which will be used as tie breakers.•We aren't spelling nazi or memory nazi. If you've got the keyword(s) we're looking for, you will be awarded the points.•Top 8 quizzers make it to finals.•Most questions are workoutable. So try answering most of them.•Please put your electronic gadgets away.

•Quizmasters is God.

0.

Where would you find the portraits of the following luminaries?

Issac NewtonGraham BellMichael FaradayEdwin HubbleAlexander FlemingMother TeressaRontgenDr Amartya Sen

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1.

There have been only two times that the Big Ben has been silenced in past 50 years - first time was in 1965.

When was the other time? Why?

1.

Today (April 17th)

Lady Thatcher’s funeral

2.

Which website gives the following as error 404 messages?

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3.

As opposed to what many people think, X is an Indian brand and not French. It was named after the French form of Lakshmi.

It was started in 1952 when the then Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was concerned that Indians were spending precious foreign exchange on this category of products, and personally requested JRD Tata to manufacture them in India.

Which brand(X)?

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4.

Which renowned person in 1992 donated $100,000 to the University of Southern California to create popularize a course on censorship in cinema and videography?

4.

Hugh Hefner

5.

What would you be doing if your soft palate and pharynx were vibrating due to an obstruction in the nasal passage?

5.

Snoring

6.

Before electricity was used in ships to light the lower decks of ships phosphorent light was used since oil lamps had the potential to catch fires. Sailors therefore had to be prepared to adjust their eyes from bright daylight at one moment, and near dark below decks the other, whenever they went up and down.

What seafaring tale is the possible explanation of this situation ?

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7.

Which sportsperson owns this restaurant?

7.

Usain Bolt

8.

On December 29, 1974, what sad event occasion was officially confirmed when the last signature was signed at Disney World, Florida, which is ironic considering that Disney World labels itself as the happiest place on Earth?

Before this, the said signatory had shouted “I want a divorce” before he walked out of a meeting at Apple headquarters back in 1969.

8.

The Beattles break-up

9.

How would we better know the artiste Onika Tanya Maraj (born December 8, 1982)?

9.

Nicki Minaj

10.

Who are 'nijū hibakusha' in Japan?

The last of ‘nijū hibakusha’ died in 2010.

10.

People who suffered the effects of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

11.

The exact origin of this phrase is obscure. Its first known appearance in print occurred in 1847 in The Knickerbocker, a New York monthly magazine. An 1847 version was possibly its first appearance in print.

There are 'quips and quillets' which seem actual conundrums, but yet are none. Of such is this: ‘________________’ ‘Are you out of town?’ ‘Do you give it up?’

Why should not ________? It would be a fowl proceeding.

Which phrase?

11.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

12.

Chris Anderson is a British former computer journalist and magazine publisher. He was born in Pakistan and he spent most of his early life in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan before going to Oxford University, where he majored in multiple subjects such as Physics, Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

He then went on to found The Sapling Foundation in 1996 whose motto is "fostering the spread of great ideas."

This non-profit then became owner of X, of which Chris is a curator of and is mostly famously known for.

What is X?

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13.

This is still kept in a vessel at the house of his brother’s son. His last wish was that it should be emptied after the reunification of India & Pakistan in the river Indus - which in his opinion is the only sacred river in the subcontinent.

What lies inside the vessel?

13.

Nathuram Godse’s ashes

14.

A London-based campaign group 'Stop The Cyborgs' is campaigning for limits on where the X can be used.

The group's website features downloadable ban signs, which it encourages the readers to put up "to ban people from using X to help protect your privacy."

Inspired by this campaign, a lot of strip clubs and restaurants have banned X.

What is this product X?

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15.

Ossetra and Sevruga are 2 well known varieties of this culinary item which takes its name from Turkish words.

The third & most famous variety takes its name from the Russian word for white. Interestingly, this term is also applied to white whale in these regions.

Which culinary item?

15.

Caviar

16.

Which retail chain is named after a mode of transportation?

Also tell me its chief product, which is also named after a mode of transportation.

16.

Subway and sub(submarine) sandwiches

17.

ID the persons.

17.

L-Neal Stephenson M-Neil Armstrong R – Neil Gainman

18.

ID the periodic table elements personified as cartoon men

A B

18.

A - Lithium B - Boron

19.

By which work of art is this Rihanna video inspired by? Also give artist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e82VE8UtW8A

19.

Andy WarholMarilyn Monroe’s lips

20.

ID the singer.

(Song – Yesterday Is Here)

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THANK YOU!