The Rules

• Teams of max 2 members; lone-wolves allowed

• Visual questions. Write down all answers on the sheets given to you

• Exchange sheets at the end• QM’s for this meet: Megha and Surabhi• Best of luck!

12 students were selected out of 75 to play the prisoners and live in a mock prison in the basement of a building. Another 12 were to play the Guards. Roles were assigned randomly.

The officers displayed authoritarian measures and subjected some of the prisoners to torture. In turn, the prisoners accepted physical abuse and readily inflicted punishment on other prisoners who attempted to stop it.

Five of the prisoners were upset enough by the process to quit the experiment early, and the entire experiment was abruptly stopped after only six days. The experimental process and the results remain controversial. The entire experiment was filmed, with excerpts made publicly available.

What?

Stanford Prison Experiment

Give name and put funda.

The domino theory promoted at times by the government of the United States, that speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.

This phrase first appeared in P. G. Wodehouse's novel

Psmith, Journalist but is usually and incorrectly associated with

another fictional character. Which phrase?

“Elementary, my Dear Watson”

Cover of a rare copy of which book?

Route of?

Volvo Ocean Race, 2011-12

In the 1800s, in English-speaking schools when reciting the alphabet, any letter that could also be used as a word in itself (‘A’, ‘I’, and, at one point, ‘O’) was preceded by the Latin expression ‘per se’ (Latin for ‘by itself’). Also, it was common practice to add at the end of the alphabet this particular sign .

Thus, the recitation of the alphabet would end in: ‘X, Y, Z and per se and.’ What sign?

Ampersand(&)

__________ Engineering is the science of breaking up complex engineering processes/products into basic components and then rebuilding the product in the most economical manner possible.

It results in simpler and easier to handle processes and cheaper products with necessary features.

The name originated from India and it is frequently referred as ‘_________ engineering’ in honour of his simple life.

Gandhian Engineering

On his final journey from England in 1610, he headed northwest towards Canada on the ship Discovery. He found a body of water which at first he thought was the Pacific Ocean. It was a large bay, which eventually was given his name.

In November, the Discovery became locked in ice. The crew wanted to get back to England, but he would not let them leave. It was a very cold winter and the crew suffered greatly.

Eventually, the captain, his son and seven others were set adrift in a small boat. No food or water was provided and they were never seen again.

Name the captain.

Henry Hudson

The missing words?

Complete these lines-

“It’s almost like a powder. (The) ground mass is very fine.

I’m going to step off the LM now.”

“One small step for man, but a giant leap for mankind”.

A computer prodigy, who in 2004 at the age of nine years became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in the world - a title she kept until 2008.

She was invited by Bill Gates to visit the Microsoft Headquarters in the USA.

A Science park in Lahore was named after her.

Won the Fatimah Jinnah Gold MedalSalaam Pakistan Youth AwardPresident's Pride of Performance

A year later, she was certified as a pilot by a flying club

in Dubai.

Arfa Karim Randhawa

India's biggest real estate developer.

Founded by Raghuvendra Singh in 1946 and is based in New Delhi, India.

They developed some of the first residential colonies in Delhi such as Krishna Nagar in East Delhi in 1949.

It has over 3,000 acres in Gurgaon and is an integrated township, which includes residential, commercial and retail

properties in a modern city infrastructure with schools, hospitals, hotels and shopping malls

Give the COMPLETE NAME of the developer.

• DLF - Delhi Land and Finance Housing and Constrution Private Ltd.

• Monday 14 May 2001 06:00am PDT• ‘X’ will be missed by his fans worldwide. So that all his fans everywhere can pay tribute to this genius, I propose that two weeks after his passing (25 May 2001) be marked as the ‘Y Day’.

• All ‘X’ fans are encouraged to carry a ‘Y’ with them for the day.

• — D Clyde Williamson.

Douglas adams

• Towel day.

• On May 25, carry a bath towel conspicuously with you for the day. Choose a towel that you like.

• Carry it everywhere. Be sure to take a photo of you with the towel and upload it to Flickr, a video uploaded to YouTube, so that you can show everyone else how you celebrated Towel Day.

• The AB franchise is owned by the AC corporation.

• The media group acquired the franchise for an amount of USD 107 million on 24 January 2008.

• There is no Icon Player for the team as the former captain rejected the offer to be an icon player in order to free funds and enable the franchise to buy & encourage younger players.

Deccan chargers

• Deccan chronicle

• VVS Laxman

2012 has been designated as the ‘____________’ year, commemorating the mathematician, computer pioneer, and code-breaker on the centennial of his birth.

Alan Turing Year

• August 6 – August 20 – Mars Science Laboratory also known as the ‘X’ is scheduled to land on Mars.

• Identify ‘X’.

Curiosity Rover

• The solar cycle was discovered in 1843 by ‘A’, who after 17 years of observations noticed a periodic variation in the average number of sunspots seen from year to year on the solar disk.

• Also called the solar magnetic activity cycle, is a periodic change in the amount of irradiation from the Sun that is experienced on Earth.

• Its also called the ‘A cycle’. Identify ‘A’.• Also, what is the approximate time period of this cycle?

Samuel Heinrich Schwabe

11 years

One of the early precursors of comic found in Rome.

Dedicated in 113 AD, it is a surviving example of a narrative told through

sequential pictures.

Identify.

Trajan's Column

CONNECT

STEPMOM

WE ARE FAMILY

JAILHOUSE ROCK

Name him.• Son of actor Ravi Raghavendra, he’s been

making music for his cousin’s short films and documentaries.

• Recently given the ‘HiFlyers Award’ by the Headlines Today.

• Called to speak at IIM-A.• Whistling Woods’ young achievers award.

• [Hint : The QM ‘lurrves’ him!]

Anirudh Ravichander

‘Why this Kolaveri Di’