The Rules : -

1. 27 Questions, attempt all, no negatives !

2. 4,5,10,12,14,18,22,26 are Starred Qs. to resolve ties, if any.

3. Please limit your answers to a word or a sentence at max.

4. That’s it, lets roll ! :D

Good Luck !

1. This concept (phrase) is the subject of a monologue in a 17th century play. The first line of the monologue is very famous. The sculpture on the right depicts this same concept.

Gimme either the phrase/1st line.

2. This 1947 invention resulted out of a Hungarian-born physicist's efforts at improving the resolution of electron microscope images. Pictures of a toy-train and a bird were transformed using this technology in 1962 - its first successful application.

It was given a name derived from the Greek words for 'complete' and 'message'.

What? [ image to follow ]

3. The Spectrophotometric value of all the colors described by the ISI was measured and determined in confirmity with the sealed sample held at Kanpur, by using the illuminent ‘C’ as specified by the International Commission on Illumination in 1931.

The above procedure is the last step in manufacture of ???

*4. Pictured above are limited edition postage stamps issued as a part of the 2010 Delhi CWG.

What feature adds to the exclusivity of this set of stamps ?

Leonardo deCaprioAshton KutcherKaty PerryLady GagaJustin BeiberMichael SchumacherBrangelinaPrincess Beatrice ……

*5. If the reports are to be believed, 650+ people including the famous ones above comprise a very elite list.

Which list / Put fundae.

6. In 2008, the mayor of a town in Turkey filed a case against Warner Bros. for using the name of the town without their prior permission.

According to him, “There is only one X in this world. The Americans used the name without informing us.”

As if this wasn’t enough, he goes on to place a series of charges including unsolved murders and a high female suicide rate on the psychological impact that the film's success has had on the city's inhabitants.

X, turns out to be a unit of mass used used in Ottoman Empire, and since 1931, it has been redefined as 10 Kgs in Turkey.

X Please.

7. What has been made an object of humor in this xkcd comic ??

8. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times, though she never received the award. In India, she used the Theosophical Society HQ as her home for a decade. In America, Edison hosted her and Alexander Graham Bell was the president of the organization she set up.

Who are we talking about?

9. It is a large Y-shaped complex, that extends about 160 km east to west and 88 km north to south. It is currently leased to a neighbouring country and the cost of the lease is supposedly a topic of debate between the two. The location holds many firsts and is still the largest facility of its kind in the world.

Identify.

[image to follow]

**10. The first recipient of this civilian award was Queen Elizabeth II in 1960. It has since been awarded to Josip Tito of Yugoslavia, to Nelson Mandela in 1992, to Richard Nixon, and to King Birendra of Nepal among others. Even though it was instituted more than fifty years ago, it has been given out only about a dozen times. This may have something to do with political instability, or perhaps not at all. Which civilian award?

Who is the only Indian to figure on this list?

11. Bertrand-François ___ de La Bourdonnais was a French naval officer and administrator in the service of the French East India Company.

The missing part in his name has been immortalized as the name of the main island in Seychelles, as well as a town in India, by the shores of Arabian Sea.

FITB.

*12. The biggest player in this industry runs a wing named Element Six devoted to profitable ways of engineering the product. The best known method is Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD), by which methane and hydrogen are passed through a chamber containing seed slivers. Heatcauses methane to lose hydrogen atoms , thus ensuring that the product is available in weeks rather than in hundreds of years.

What is the product?

13. In 1 968, Robert Rosenthal described what is sometimes known as the observer-expectancy effect.

The basic postulate is that the teacher's expectations of a student significantly affect the student's performance.

After which Cypriot sculptor is this hypothesis named?

*14. According to eBay's 1000 internet user survey, nearly 58% of people now prefer the Voldemort variation, compared to only 17% who follow the original version as envisioned by CMU nerds some 30 years ago in a chat room.

What are we talking about ?

15. On which real-life character was ‘Cassius Ceramix’ in Asterix comics based on?

16. Simple, whose FB post ?

17. According to legend, there was a ruler who once went on a hunting. It turns out he realized the futility of hunting that day, and his minister suggested that he take to singing instead to spread the message of peace. The king wanted to start straightway and the minister suggested he use a bow & arrow to create rhythms.

This incident narrates the origin of which art form ?

* 18. Widely regarded as the “Grand slam” of show business, getting an EGOT or a GATE for that matter is perhaps a very very special accolade for the individuals concerned.

Put Fundae.

PS : This GATE ain’t the usual one !

19. This 3-word term refers to a peninsula of East Africa that juts for hundreds of kilometers into the Arabian Sea, and lies along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden. The term also refers to region containing the countries of Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia.It is one of two entirely arid Biodiversity Hotspots.

What?

20. Simple, whose cheeky reply ???

21. Listed are 6 romantic novels written by Mary Westmacott, between 1930 & 1956. These works didn’t gather much attention amidst the works by the same author, but in a different genre, which spanned nearly 5 decades.

 Giant's Bread Unfinished Portrait Absent in the Spring The Rose and the Yew Tree A Daughter's a Daughter The Burden

Whose works/ How do we know this author ?

*22. In 2004, APJ Abdul Kalam broke this tradition, that was being followed by most of his predecessors.

In 2009, Pratibha Patil followed suit, I mean, by breaking the tradition.

However, in 2014, Pranab Mukherjee decided to reinstate the practice.

What are we talking about ?

23. Shown below is perhaps one of the most important space probes made by man. It gets its name from the country that was involved in its development. This nation, although not known for its space exploration achievements, was in fact the first one to have a successful space program, after The US & USSR/Russia. Nevertheless, this object is regarded as its greatest contribution for the cause. Name the object/country.

24. The Vanishing Act is an upcoming thriller film to be directed by Kamasutra 3D director Rupesh Paul, as inspired by events surrounding ___________ .

A teaser of the movie was released at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, and received an adverse reaction from social and mainstream media.

The story revolves around five young people and the decisions they make in life, as inspired by events surrounding _________and a theory by an unnamed journalist of what may have happened in reality.

FITB.

25. In 2013, Visa international roped in a famous, dim-witted character from children literature, to spread financial awareness among Indians. These special comic strips intend to educate first-time cardholders about the dangers of sketchy credit card offers, attempts to obtain their private financial information via online "phishing," and other schemes designed to entice and entrap the stumble-prone among us.

Who has been this apt choice for the purpose ?

* 26. In geometry, X, also called regular octachoron or cubic prism, is the four-dimensional analog of the cube, ie, the X is to the cube as the cube is to the square.

The name takes its roots from the Greek for “4 rays”, referring to the four lines from each vertex to other vertices.

What’s this name, familiar to everyone due to entirely non-mathematical reasons.

PS : hypercube won’t suffice !

27. Despite the lack of a proper record on this much-debated item’s weight, some reports give the following data

Its weight changed from 1.347 kg to 1.247 kg, some 8 years ago. For a very long time though, it weighed an unreasonable 1.474 kg before being reduced to 1.247 kg subsequently, and has stayed so since last disclosure.

It has carried a constant criticism of being much heavier than others of its kind in the world.

What famous item, which unfortunately ceased to exist from last year ?

ANSWERS

1. This concept (phrase) is the subject of a monologue in a 17th century play. The first line of the monologue is very famous. The sculpture on the right depicts this same concept.

Gimme either the phrase/1st line.

The 7 ages

by William Shakespeare

“ All the world is a stage …..”

2. This 1947 invention resulted out of a Hungarian-born physicist's efforts at improving the resolution of electron microscope images. Pictures of a toy-train and a bird were transformed using this technology in 1962 - its first successful application.

It was given a name derived from the Greek words for 'complete' and 'message'.

What? [ image to follow ]

Hologram

3. The Spectrophotometric value of all the colors described by the ISI was measured and determined in confirmity with the sealed sample held at Kanpur, by using the illuminent ‘C’ as specified by the International Commission on Illumination in 1931.

The above procedure is the last step in manufacture of ???

The making of our national flag

*4. Pictured above are limited edition postage stamps issued as a part of the 2010 Delhi CWG.

What feature adds to the exclusivity of this set of stamps ?

1st set of stamps to use the new rupee

symbol & drop the paisa

notation

Leonardo deCaprioAshton KutcherKaty PerryLady GagaJustin BeiberMichael SchumacherBrangelinaPrincess Beatrice ……

*5. If the reports are to be believed, 650+ people including the famous ones above comprise a very elite list.

Which list / Put fundae.

Virgin Galactic space tourists’ list

6. In 2008, the mayor of a town in Turkey filed a case against Warner Bros. for using the name of the town without their prior permission.

According to him, “There is only one X in this world. The Americans used the name without informing us.”

As if this wasn’t enough, he goes on to place a series of charges including unsolved murders and a high female suicide rate on the psychological impact that the film's success has had on the city's inhabitants.

X, turns out to be a unit of mass used used in Ottoman Empire, and since 1931, it has been redefined as 10 Kgs in Turkey.

X Please.

7. What has been made an object of humor in this xkcd comic ??

8. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times, though she never received the award. In India, she used the Theosophical Society HQ as her home for a decade. In America, Edison hosted her and Alexander Graham Bell was the president of the organization she set up.

Who are we talking about?

Maria Montessori

9. It is a large Y-shaped complex, that extends about 160 km east to west and 88 km north to south. It is currently leased to a neighbouring country and the cost of the lease is supposedly a topic of debate between the two. The location holds many firsts and is still the largest facility of its kind in the world.

Identify.

[image to follow]

Baikanour cosmodrome

**10. The first recipient of this civilian award was Queen Elizabeth II in 1960. It has since been awarded to Josip Tito of Yugoslavia, to Nelson Mandela in 1992, to Richard Nixon, and to King Birendra of Nepal among others. Even though it was instituted more than fifty years ago, it has been given out only about a dozen times. This may have something to do with political instability, or perhaps not at all. Which civilian award?

Who is the only Indian to figure on this list?

Nishan – e –Pakistan

Morarji Desai

11. Bertrand-François ___ de La Bourdonnais was a French naval officer and administrator in the service of the French East India Company.

The missing part in his name has been immortalized as the name of the main island in Seychelles, as well as a town in India, by the shores of Arabian Sea.

FITB.

Mahe

*12. The biggest player in this industry runs a wing named Element Six devoted to profitable ways of engineering the product. The best known method is Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD), by which methane and hydrogen are passed through a chamber containing seed slivers. Heatcauses methane to lose hydrogen atoms , thus ensuring that the product is available in weeks rather than in hundreds of years.

What is the product?

Artificial diamonds

13. In 1 968, Robert Rosenthal described what is sometimes known as the observer-expectancy effect.

The basic postulate is that the teacher's expectations of a student significantly affect the student's performance, in a positive way.

After which Cypriot sculptor is this hypothesis named?

Pygmalion effect

* 14. According to eBay's 1000 internet user survey, nearly 58% of people now prefer the Voldemort variation, compared to only 17% who follow the original version as envisioned by CMU nerds some 30 years ago in a chat room.

Another survey showed the odds as 67-25-8 %.

What are we talking about ?

Emoticons !!! ;)

15. On which real-life character was ‘Cassius Ceramix’ in Asterix comics based on?

Cassius Cermaix = Cassius Clay = Mohd. Ali

16. Simple, whose FB post ?

Stephen Hawking

17. According to legend, there was a ruler who once went on a hunting. It turns out he realized the futility of hunting that day, and his minister suggested that he take to singing instead to spread the message of peace. The king wanted to start straightway and the minister suggested he use a bow & arrow to create rhythms.

This incident narrates the origin of which art form ?

Villupaattu

*18. Widely regarded as the “Grand slam” of show business, getting an EGOT or a GATE for that matter is perhaps a very very special accolade for the individuals concerned.

Put Fundae.

PS : This GATE ain’t the usual one !

E – EmmyG – GrammyO – OscarT - Tony

19. This 3-word term refers to a peninsula of East Africa that juts for hundreds of kilometers into the Arabian Sea, and lies along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden. The term also refers to region containing the countries of Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia.It is one of two entirely arid Biodiversity Hotspots.

What?

20. Simple, whose cheeky reply ???

Snapdeal

21. Listed are 6 romantic novels written by Mary Westmacott, between 1930 & 1956. These works didn’t gather much attention amidst the works by the same author, but in a different genre, which spanned nearly 5 decades.

 Giant's Bread Unfinished Portrait Absent in the Spring The Rose and the Yew Tree A Daughter's a Daughter The Burden

Whose works/ How do we know this author ?

Agatha Christie

*22. In 2004, APJ Abdul Kalam broke this tradition, that was being followed by most of his predecessors.

In 2009, Pratibha Patil followed suit, I mean, by breaking the tradition.

However, in 2014, Pranab Mukherjee decided to reinstate the practice.

What are we talking about ?

To vote or not to whether the President should cast his

vote

23. Shown below is perhaps one of the most important space probes made by man. It gets its name from the country that was involved in its development. This nation, although not known for its space exploration achievements, was in fact the first one to have a successful space program, after The US & USSR/Russia. Nevertheless, this object is regarded as its greatest contribution for the cause. Name the object/country.

Canadarm

24. The Vanishing Act is an upcoming thriller film to be directed by Kamasutra 3D director Rupesh Paul, as inspired by events surrounding ___________ .

A teaser of the movie was released at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, and received an adverse reaction from social and mainstream media.

The story revolves around five young people and the decisions they make in life, as inspired by events surrounding _________and a theory by an unnamed journalist of what may have happened in reality.

FITB.

MH370 / missing Malaysian plane

25. In 2013, Visa international roped in a famous, dim-witted character from children literature, to spread financial awareness among Indians. These special comic strips intend to educate first-time cardholders about the dangers of sketchy credit card offers, attempts to obtain their private financial information via online "phishing," and other schemes designed to entice and entrap the stumble-prone among us.

Who has been this apt choice for the purpose ?

Shuppandi !

*26. In geometry, X, also called regular octachoron or cubic prism, is the four-dimensional analog of the cube, ie, the X is to the cube as the cube is to the square.

The name takes its roots from the Greek for “4 rays”, referring to the four lines from each vertex to other vertices.

What’s this name, familiar to everyone due to entirely non-mathematical reasons.

PS : hypercube won’t suffice !

Tesseract

27. Despite the lack of a proper record on this much-debated item’s weight, some reports give the following data –

Its weight changed from 1.347 kg to 1.247 kg, some 8 years ago. For a very long time though, it weighed an unreasonable 1.474 kg before being reduced to 1.247 kg subsequently, and has stayed so since last disclosure.

It has carried a constant criticism of being much heavier than others of its kind in the world.

What famous item, which unfortunately ceased to exist from last year ?