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Total 6 Questions

6 Questions will be following the general rule. Clockwise.

Direct/Indirect: +10 for correct answers. No negative for wrong answers.

On Pounce: +10 for correct answers and -10 for wrong answers.

1. Punch and Judy is a traditional, popular, and usually very violent puppetshow featuring Pulcinella (Mr. Punch) and his wife Judy. The performance consists of a sequence of short scenes, each depicting an interaction between twocharacters, most typically Mr. Punch and one other character (who usually falls victim to Mr. Punch's club). The show is performed by a single puppeteer inside the booth, known since Victorian times as a "professor" or "punchman“.

The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch or simply Mr. Punch is a graphic novel written by ‘X’.

The general story is paralleled with the traditional story of the Mr. Punch show. The narrator is first introduced to Mr. Punch when fishing with his grandfather, but encounters it, and a mysterious 'professor' (Punch & Judy man), during various other activities.

‘X’ ?

Neil Gaiman

2. It was First published in Swedish in 1951. Worldwide,approximately 208 million copies of it were printed infiscal year 2013, more than double the number of Bibles expected to

be printed in the same period. For the 2013 edition, 62 different versions of the catalogue were created for 43 countries.

The publisher of it also sells a regular style magazine, titled _____ Family Live in thirteen languages which supplements it.

What am I talking About?

IKEA Catalogue

3. This is Thomas Satterwhite Noble's 1867 painting, The Modern Medea andwas based on Garner's story. Margaret Garner (called "Peggy") was an enslaved African-American woman in pre-Civil War America who was notorious – or celebrated – for killing her own daughter rather than allowing the child to be returned to slavery. _______ is a 1987 novel by the American writer ‘X’. Set after the American Civil War, it is inspired by the story of Margaret Garner and her escaping slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. In the novel, the protagonist Sethe is also a slave who escapes slavery, running to Cincinnati, Ohio.

FITB for the book.

The book is Beloved by Toni Morrison.

4. Mulligatawny is an English soup with origins in Indian cuisine. The name originates from the Tamil words mullaga/milagu and thanni and can be translated as "pepper-water“.

The original version of this soup consisted of a broth from lentils, fried onions and curry powder. Today it normally designates a thickened soup that is strongly spiced with curry powder and nutmeg. Often, strips of vegetables, nuts and rice are added, sometimes also port wine.

Whose favourite food is this?

Batman’s favorite food is mulligatawny soup. This was revealed in Batman #701 when Bruce Wayne’s butler welcomed him back to Wayne Mansion with, “I prepared mulligatawny soup, your favourite.”

5. These two articles were the last one by the author ‘X’ in two particular column published in two famous Assamese magazines respectively. Name the author.

3) Put Funda !!! ( bigger pic. in the next slide)

3) Put Funda !!! ( bigger pic. in the next slide)

Dr Bhabendra Nath Saikia

6. H2NO refers to an upselling campaign by ‘X’ to dissuade consumersfrom ordering tap water drinks at restaurants, and to instead ordermore profitable soft drinks, non-carbonated beverages, or bottled water. The campaign's title, H2NO, reflects the program's purpose, which is to have customers say No to H2O, the chemical formula for water. The program taught waiters how to use "suggestive selling techniques" to offer an onslaught of alternative beverages when diners asked for water.

Later, ‘X’ was in a controversy whether they did or didn’t create this campaign.

Solve for ‘X’.

Coca-Cola

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On Pounce: +10 for correct answers and -10 for wrong answers.

1. It is a thermoplastic polymer called Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS). Its glass transition temperature is approximately 105 °C (221 °F). ABS is amorphous and therefore has no true melting point.

This polymer is used in the making of the flagship product of a company. According to an article in BusinessWeek in 2006 this company could be considered the world's No. 1 tire manufacturer; the factory produces about 306 million small rubber tires a year but tire is not their product.

Which Company?

Lego

2. Prolific horror author H.P. Lovecraft worked for pulp mag Weird Tales early in his career, writing his own stories and tirelessly drafting those of others as a ghostwriter. One of his most famous collaborators was ‘X’ — who happened to be a big fan of the magazine. Under the Pyramids (Imprisoned with the Pharaohs) is a fictionalized account of a real-life ‘X’ experience — allegedly anyway, because even Lovecraft didn’t believe the escape artist. ‘X’ adored the tale and went on to collaborate with Lovecraft on several other projects, one of them being ‘The Horror in the Museum’.

Solve for ‘X’.

Harry Houdini

3. The ‘X’ Restaurant and Market is a seafood restaurant chain inspired by a 1994 film. As of July 2015, forty of these restaurants operate worldwide. Twenty-nine of these locations are in the United States, four are in Mexico, three are in Malaysia, and one each in London, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, and the Philippines. The company is based in Houston, Texas, and has been a division of Landry's Restaurants since 2010.The first restaurant opened in 1996 in Monterey, California by Viacom Consumer.

‘X’ ? Products.

Bubba Gump Shrimp Company

4. As the legend goes, ‘X’ felt optimistic about their comedy – The Whole Nine Yards’s box office prospects while ‘Y’ was a bit more wary. So ‘X’ bet ‘Y’ that if the film opened at No. 1 at the box office, that ‘Y’ would agree to guest-star on _______ for free. The film surprised a lot of movie prognosticators by becoming a big hit, ending up at No. 1 on the box office for the first three weeks of its release in 2000. Thus, ‘Y’ had to appear on ______ for free.

However, ‘Y’ eventually won a Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Emmy Award for his performance in _______.

Solve for Y. FITB

X – Matthew PerryY – Bruce Willis

Bruce Willis appearing as a guest actor in Friends, the role being Paul, the father of a girl Ross dates. He won the Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Emmy Award for this role.

5. On March 15th, 2016, the McDonald’s YouTube channel posted a video titled “Mirai no Watashi” (“The Future Me” in English), featuring the young girl Sumire Hibino and a senior staff member (named Ikumi Hoshino) talking to her to be calm and confident in her work.

Why was this video made?

This is the McDonald’s Anime Recruitment Video that refers to an anime-style promotional video made to attract job applicants for McDonald’s restaurants in Japan.

6. ‘Ski-burn’ is a ritual that takes place in and around Southern Colorado. It is a pagan sacrifice of skis meant to reverse Southern Colorado’s snow drought. Around February, 2016, ‘X’ heard about the tradition from a local and put in a request with Telluride Town Manager Greg Clifton. Within 72 hours, the town organized both the ski burn that weekend and a dance with the Ute Indians at the location. The entire town government got on board for the burn: Clifton personally sawed and shaped the skis.

Why was this ‘Ski-burn’ done?

‘X’ is Quentin Tarantino. The ritual was for the film The Hateful Eight. He was in town to film The Hateful Eight, centered on travelers trapped by a blizzard. But the snow gods weren’t delivering. So Tarantino personally requested the burn.

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Connect the dotsThe Long Visual Connect Round

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The Great Houses (in the Game of Thrones)

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+10 for correct answer. No negative for wrong answer. Part points allowed.

1. The musical film adaptation of ‘X’ was released by Walt Disney Pictures in 1964. Primarily based on the original 1934 novel of the same name, it also lifted elements from the 1935 sequel ‘X’, Comes Back. The writer (Y) was an adviser in the production, but ‘Y’ disapproved of the character in its Disney version, with harsher aspects diluted; felt ambivalent about the music; and ‘Y’ so hated the use of animation that any further adaptations of the series was excluded. ‘Y’ received no invitation to the film's star-studded première. At the after-party, ‘Y’ said loudly "The first thing that has to go is the animation sequence'." Disney replied, “______, the ship has sailed", and walked away. ‘Y’ so disliked the Disney adaptation and the way ‘Y’ had been treated during the production that when producer Cameron Mackintosh approached her years later about making the British stage musical ‘Y’ acquiesced only on conditions that English-born writers alone and no one from the original film production were to be directly involved.

Solve for X and Y.

2. The ‘X’ is a universal development corporation, first mentioned in the 1965 novel ‘Y’. It controls all economic affairs across the cosmos, though it is at the mercy of the Spacing Guild's monopoly on interstellar travel. In a 1980 article, the writer equated ‘X’ with OPEC, the real-world intergovernmental organization which is a major power in the petroleum industry(founded in 1960 in Baghdad by the first five members, and headquartered since 1965 in Vienna).

The logo of the company is a red-black circle in a yellow background. It was the first/richest in a list by Forbes in 2011.

Solve for ‘X’ and ‘Y’.

3. Obukhovskaya hospital was founded in 1779 and included "Dolgauz” the first psychiatric institution in the city. Initially it was painted in the tradition yellow color of St. Petersburg. The mad house was literally translated in Russian as the "Yellow House”. Also yellow colour in Russian culture, symbolize betrayal/infidelity and prostitutes had special ID documents, called "yellow tickets", in Czarist times.

The novel ‘X’ by ‘Y’ is a perfect example of a book using the colour yellow to symbolise mental illness and might also be the first to do so. Examples include Sonya's yellow ticket, a license to practice prostitution, the walls of Raskolnikov's garret, and the walls of the old pawnbroker, among numerous other examples.

Solve for X and Y.

4. ‘X’ began their “_____ ___ ___ ____ _____ ______” campaign during Super Bowl XLIV in 2010, where grumpy people in troublesome situations were portrayed by celebrity actors Betty White and Abe Vigoda. Upon eating ‘X’ provided by a concerned friend, the character is transformed and indicates that the are “better”. In 2012, a similar ad ran in the United Kingdom starring actress Joan Collins.

Solve for ‘X’. FITB.

5. According to Inquisitr, the website, Linkbeef had copied and pasted his name into a previous fake story about Adam Sandler’s death – with details of Robin Williams’ death haphazardly mixed in.

It read: ‘His publicist said he had been “battling severe depression”. In the past he had talked, and even joked, about his struggles with alcohol and drugs.‘________ had recently returned to a rehabilitation center to “fine-tune” his sobriety, the Los Angeles Times reported in September. The local Sheriff’s office said ________ was found unconscious and not breathing at his home near Tiburon, north of San Francisco.‘”At this time, the Sheriff’s Office Coroner Division suspects the death to be a suicide due to asphyxia, but a comprehensive investigation must be completed before a final determination is made,” police said in a statement.’

Who am I talking about? What’s the controversy here?

6. The Space Trilogy or Cosmic Trilogy is a series of science fiction novels by ’X’. According to the Space Trilogy's cosmology, the speech of all the inhabitants of the Field of Arbol is the Old Solar or Hlab-Eribol-ef-Cordi. Only Earth lost the language, due to the Bent One's influence. Old Solar can be likened to the ______ language invented by his friend, ‘Y’. The grammar is little known, except for the plurals of nouns.

Solve for ‘X’ and ‘Y’.

7. ‘X’ is a billionaire industrialist who specializes in nuclear power and owns several nuclear power plants. He is also a close friend and advisor of President Garrett Walker. After getting a mechanical engineering degree from the Carnegie Mellon University in 1970, he went on to work in the power generation division of General Dynamics. Within 3 years, he was promoted to junior project manager.

‘X’ wasn’t exactly parallel to ‘Y’, but he was inspired by him. Though ‘Y’ is one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the country and but he chooses to live in Omaha and works in the same office he started out in decades ago. He lives a homespun, folksy existence. But at the same time, he’s one of the most sophisticated and savvy businesspeople that the 20th century produced. ‘X’ is thus similar to ‘Y’.

Solve for ‘X’ and ‘Y’.

1. The musical film adaptation of ‘X’ was released by Walt Disney Pictures in 1964. Primarily based on the original 1934 novel of the same name, it also lifted elements from the 1935 sequel ‘X’, Comes Back. The writer (Y) was an adviser in the production, but ‘Y’ disapproved of the character in its Disney version, with harsher aspects diluted; felt ambivalent about the music; and ‘Y’ so hated the use of animation that any further adaptations of the series was excluded. ‘Y’ received no invitation to the film's star-studded première. At the after-party, ‘Y’ said loudly "The first thing that has to go is the animation sequence'." Disney replied, “______, the ship has sailed", and walked away. ‘Y’ so disliked the Disney adaptation and the way ‘Y’ had been treated during the production that when producer Cameron Mackintosh approached her years later about making the British stage musical ‘Y’ acquiesced only on conditions that English-born writers alone and no one from the original film production were to be directly involved.

Solve for X and Y.

X – Mary Poppins

Y – P.L. Travers

2. The ‘X’ is a universal development corporation, first mentioned in the 1965 novel ‘Y’. It controls all economic affairs across the cosmos, though it is at the mercy of the Spacing Guild's monopoly on interstellar travel. In a 1980 article, the writer equated ‘X’ with OPEC, the real-world intergovernmental organization which is a major power in the petroleum industry(founded in 1960 in Baghdad by the first five members, and headquartered since 1965 in Vienna).

The logo of the company is a red-black circle in a yellow background. It was the first/richest in a list by Forbes in 2011.

Solve for ‘X’ and ‘Y’.

X- CHOAMY – Dune

3. Obukhovskaya hospital was founded in 1779 and included "Dolgauz” the first psychiatric institution in the city. Initially it was painted in the tradition yellow color of St. Petersburg. The mad house was literally translated in Russian as the "Yellow House”. Also yellow colour in Russian culture, symbolize betrayal/infidelity and prostitutes had special ID documents, called "yellow tickets", in Czarist times.

The novel ‘X’ by ‘Y’ is a perfect example of a book using the colour yellow to symbolise mental illness and might also be the first to do so. Examples include Sonya's yellow ticket, a license to practice prostitution, the walls of Raskolnikov's garret, and the walls of the old pawnbroker, among numerous other examples.

Solve for X and Y.

X – Crime and Punishment

Y – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

4. ‘X’ began their “_____ ___ ___ ____ _____ ______” campaign during Super Bowl XLIV in 2010, where grumpy people in troublesome situations were portrayed by celebrity actors Betty White and Abe Vigoda. Upon eating ‘X’ provided by a concerned friend, the character is transformed and indicates that they are “better”. In 2012, a similar ad ran in the United Kingdom starring actress Joan Collins.

Solve for ‘X’. FITB.

Snickers

“You’re Not You When You’re Hungry

5. According to Inquisitr, the website, Linkbeef had copied and pasted his name into a previous fake story about Adam Sandler’s death – with details of Robin Williams’ death haphazardly mixed in.

It read: ‘His publicist said he had been “battling severe depression”. In the past he had talked, and even joked, about his struggles with alcohol and drugs.‘________ had recently returned to a rehabilitation center to “fine-tune” his sobriety, the Los Angeles Times reported in September. The local Sheriff’s office said ________ was found unconscious and not breathing at his home near Tiburon, north of San Francisco.‘”At this time, the Sheriff’s Office Coroner Division suspects the death to be a suicide due to asphyxia, but a comprehensive investigation must be completed before a final determination is made,” police said in a statement.’

Who am I talking about? What’s the controversy here?

Rowan Atkinson

The fake news of him being dead

6. The Space Trilogy or Cosmic Trilogy is a series of science fiction novels by ’X’. According to the Space Trilogy's cosmology, the speech of all the inhabitants of the Field of Arbol is the Old Solar or Hlab-Eribol-ef-Cordi. Only Earth lost the language, due to the Bent One's influence. Old Solar can be likened to the ______ language invented by his friend, ‘Y’. The grammar is little known, except for the plurals of nouns.

Solve for ‘X’ and ‘Y’.

X- C.S. LewisY – JRR Tolkien

7. ‘X’ is a billionaire industrialist who specializes in nuclear power and owns several nuclear power plants. He is also a close friend and advisor of President Garrett Walker. After getting a mechanical engineering degree from the Carnegie Mellon University in 1970, he went on to work in the power generation division of General Dynamics. Within 3 years, he was promoted to junior project manager.

‘X’ wasn’t exactly parallel to ‘Y’, but he was inspired by him. Though ‘Y’ is one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the country and but he chooses to live in Omaha and works in the same office he started out in decades ago. He lives a homespun, folksy existence. But at the same time, he’s one of the most sophisticated and savvy businesspeople that the 20th century produced. ‘X’ is thus similar to ‘Y’.

Solve for ‘X’ and ‘Y’.

X – Raymond Tusk (from House of Cards)Y – Warren Buffett

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On Pounce: +10 for correct answers and -10 for wrong answers.

1.Rani Gaidinliu (1915–1993) was a Naga spiritual and political leader who led a revolt against British rule in India. Gaidinliu wasarrested in 1932 at the age of 16, and was sentenced to life imprisonment

by the British rulers. Jawaharlal Nehru met her at Shillong Jail in 1937, and promised to pursue her release. Nehru gave her the title of "Rani" ("Queen").

This meeting inspired ‘X’ to write his first poem as ‘Rani Gaidinlu’. But he has only one collection of poem book. He first edited an Assamese weekly newspaper Nilachal and later he edited the weekly Nagarik. Afterwards, he served as a senior staff member of Bangali daily newspaper Ajkal.

Who is he?

Homen Borgohain

2. This Picasso’s 1934 painting “Two Characters” inspiredsomething very familiar in the world of Business.

What?

The Logo of Mac Finder.

3.He is Pankaj Mishra , an Indian essayist and novelist. He is the man behind the success and publishing of a 1996 Novel, which is also the author X’s only novel as of July 2016. The potential of the story was first recognized by him and he sent it to three British publishers. Roy received 500, 000 pounds in advance and rights to the book was sold in 21 countries. The author also said that without him the book is not possible. Which Book and the author ‘X’?

The God of Small Things, Arundhuti Roy

4. It was launched in 1951–52 as a toothpaste brand. It was owned by Reckitt Benckiser which sold it to Dabur in 1996. Currently, Dabur markets toothbrushes under the ______ brand.

This brand sponsored something from 1952 to 1988 and in an another platform it ran till 1994. it makes the brand a household name. Which Brand?

Binaca/ Binaca Geetmala

5. He is a former British Army major who made headlines worldwide in 2001 due to a controversy that he involved in a famous TV show.

Directly inspired from this controversy, taking an Indian counterpart an author wrote the novel ‘X’ and the author becomes very famous because of this novel. Which Indian Novel?

Q & A

6. This company takes its name from the Latin word meaning a cavity, hollow, or dip, especially a pool or pond. Tran figuratively,the word comes to mean a gap, deficiency, or loss. The term “_______

infarct" refers to a stroke that involves a small area of the brain responsible for a specific function, or even a specific memory. Additionally, in the study of ancient manuscripts, a ______ is a hole where part of the text is missing, and which can sometimes be re-constructed.

Which Company?

Lacuna Inc. in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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Name the persons from their business cards.6 questions5 marks for each questionExtra 10 marks for all correct answer.

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1. Connect

1) ৰুপহী 2) বগীতৰা 3) স�াণতৰা 4) স�ানটিৰঅভি�মান 5) যুঁজাৰু6) �ভিতৰ স�াৱৰভিণ 7) �ভি� 8) প্ৰত্নতাভি�কৰকলাঘুমটি 9) নীলা চৰাই

এইকে�ইটা হৈ�কে ৰুপকে�াৱৰ জ্য��াতি�প্ৰসাদ আগৰৱালাই জ্য�ওৰ �ীৱন�াল� ৰচনা �ৰা এ�মাত্ৰ গল্প৷

2. Some people said that she is Claudia Dell . Others said she is actress Amelia Batchler. In 2001, the Chicago Sun-Times said that she is Jane Bartholomew, a local worker. In present time, though people thought that she is actress Annette Bening but it was actually a Louisiana homemaker and muralist named Jenny Joseph.

What am I talking about?

3. It is one of the most famous souvenir. First worn in the 1950s show, it stillremains the top seller today. The vintage ones were more like the real ones, but today, these have evolved well beyond that simple design. New versions attach to everything from wizard hats to graduation caps to Star Wars helmets. You’ll find them covered in fur or glitter, as well as the ones that light up and make sounds.

What am I talking about?

Mickey Mouse ears

4. X’ is a recurring love interest of James Bond. She appeared in the first two official James Bond films, Dr. No (1962) and From Russia with Love (1963) and was portrayed by Eunice Gayson.

With what can she be credited, something that happened in Dr. No, and stayed till Spectre(2015)?

X is Sylvia Trench. She said, “Trench. Sylvia Trench”, which made James Bond say, “Bond. James Bond”.

James Bond: “I admire your courage, Miss...?”

Sylvia Trench: “Trench. Sylvia Trench. I admire your luck, Mr...?”

James Bond: “Bond. James Bond.”

5. Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and playwright ofthe late 19th and early 20th centuries.

When selecting a title, ‘X’ turned to Dunbar, whose works she had admired for years. Jazz vocalist and civil rights activist Abbey Lincoln suggested the title. According to Lyman B. Hagen, the title pulls ‘X’'s readers into the book while reminding them that it is possible to both lose control of one's life and to have one's freedom taken from them. The title of the book comes from the third stanza of Dunbar's poem "Sympathy“: (on the next slide)

‘Y’ is one of the most controversial novels till date.

Solve for ‘X’ and ‘Y’.

‘Y’, ah me,When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,When he beats his bars and would be free;It is not a carol of joy or glee,But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core,But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings –‘Y’.

X – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Y – Maya Angelou.

6. A few years back, Dash, a detergent company, started an advertisement, called, ‘Dash, White power’. Most people resented this ad calling it a clear example of racism, not only because of the phrase, but also because of the man/his costume standing with the Dash detergent powder. A screenshot is given here.

What was the costume of?

Klu Klux KLan

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