moss week 12
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Mosstermind Fun n Fundas
Week 12
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VenkykiViBan
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• 6 sets of 5 questions each• Each set has four 1 pointers and a 3 pointer• No negatives• Teams of max 4 people• More than 4 - play as separate tables• All answers to be written down• Include table # on your answer sheet• Hand in answers at the end of each set
The Rules
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Set 1
Kings
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1The Aztec believed these were the incarnation of their fallen warriors, wearing the colors of battle. ID.
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2ID the story
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3We know a lot about him through Hiuen Tsang’s accounts. Who?
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What is this? 4
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Also the name of a line of 36 rulers, from 1299 to 1923, what are these pieces of furniture called?
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Answers
1. The Monarch butterfly
2. King Solomon’s Mines
3. Harshavardhana
4. King Tutankhamen’s tomb
5. Ottoman
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Set 2
Crime
Fiction
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Identify the film
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2Her first published appearance was in issue 350 of The Royal Magazine for December 1927, with the first printing of the short story The Tuesday Night Club. First full-length novel was Murder at the Vicarage.
Sources claim that the character is partly modeled on the author’s grandmother.
Name, please.
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This is a depiction of a short story first published in Graham's Magazine in 1841.
It is claimed to be the first detective story.
Which story / author?
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4The epitaph on his gravestone in the churchyard at Minstead in New Forest, Hampshire, reads:
STEEL TRUEBLADE STRAIGHT
_____________KNIGHT
PATRIOT, PHYSICIAN & MAN OF LETTERS
Who?
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5“He has no original. He is a dream man… For your private detective wants to be a hard and shifty fellow, able to take care of himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with, whether criminal, innocent bystander or client.”
This is the author talking about which character?
Use this actor as a clue
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Answers
1. Nancy Drew
2. Miss Jane Marple
3. Murder in the Rue Morgue by
Edgar Allen Poe
4. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5. Sam Spade from Maltese Falcon
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Set 3Parliament 2009
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1If Shashi Tharoor and Preneet Kaur are the current Ministers of State for this ministry, who is the Cabinet Minister?
He is a former CM and governor.
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There are 33 Cabinet-rank Ministers in the govt currently. 27 of them are from the Congress. From the non-Congress parties are A Raja, Dayanidhi Maran, MK Azhagiri, Mamta Bannerjee, Sharad Pawar and who else?
He holds the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
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3There are four father – son pairs in the 15th Lok Sabha.
1.Ajit Singh - Jayant Chaudhary2.Mulayam Singh Yadav - Akhilesh Yadav3.Adhikari Sisir Kumar - Adhikari Suvendu
Name the fourth pair.
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The youngest Cabinet Minister in the current Cabinet is 42 years old, and holds the Textiles Ministry after being elected from the Chennai Central constituency.
Who?
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5The Cabinet Minister for Water Resources in India vacated the post 3 days after being sworn into office and went on to create a record of sorts.
Who is this, and for what reason?
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Answers
1. SM Krishna
2. Farooq Abdullah
3. HD Deve Gowda and HD
Kumaraswamy
4. Dayanidhi Maran
5. Meira Kumar, who became the
first Woman Speaker of the Lok
Sabha
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Set 4
World Cup
Cricket
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1ID this cricket umpire who was the only India umpire selected to officiate the 1992 world cup?
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2CONNECT
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Who is missing?
1975: Faroukh Engineer1979: Surinder Khanna1983: Syed Kirmani1987: Kiran More1992: Kiran More1996: Nayan Mongia1999: Nayan Mongia2003: ???
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Who was the captain of the Indian cricket team in the 1975 Prudential World Cup?
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CONNECT:
Dennis Amiss 137 vs Ind 1975J Miandad 103 vs S.L 1987Martin Crowe 100 vs Aus 1992Nathan Astle 101 vs Eng 1996Brian Lara 116 vs S.A 2003
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Answers
1. Piloo Reporter
2. Anderson Cummins, Graeme Hick
and Kepler Wessels – Represented
multiple countries in World Cups
3. Rahul Dravid
4. Srinivas Venkatraghavan
5. Centuries in the first matches of
each of these World Cups
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Set 5heard here
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Set 6
Queens
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1Fill in the blank.
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2Name the lady with Michelle Obama.
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Cheese was not added until 1889, when the Royal Palace commissioned the Neapolitan Raffaele Esposito to create one in her honor. She strongly preferred one in the colors of the Italian flag: red (tomato), green (basil), and white (mozzarella).
What are we talking about?
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If this is his latest, what was the earlier one? 4
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5In 353 B.C. Queen Artemisia decided to build the most splendid tomb ever, in memory of her husband. It became so famous that it is now associated with stately tombs everywhere.
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Answers
1. Queen Victoria
2. Queen Rania of Jordon
3. Margherita Pizza
4. Elizabeth, Shekhar Kapur’s next
film
5. Mausoleum
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