MEGA-HEADRUSH

PRELIMS

Krung thep maha nakorn amorn ratana kosin mahintar ayutthay amaha dilok phop noppa ratrajathani burirom udom rajaniwes mahasat harn amorn phimarn avatarn sathit sakkattiya visanukamprasit

What is this capital city better known as? 1

Bangkok

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What is the full form of VLC in VLC media player?

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VideoLANClient

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Identify the man in the picture, widely credited with the invention of the Internet.

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Tim Berners-Lee

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What time is a newly bought clock set to?

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10:10

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Identify the game from which this screenshot is taken.

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Wolfenstein-3D

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IfAdolf Hitler NazismthenBenito Mussolini XWhat is X?

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X is Fascism

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Name the Indian version of the Golden Raspberry award .

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Golden Kela award

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*Substantiate the relevance of this photograph.

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Cartoonist Hank Ketchman working on his comic Dennis the Menace, drawing references from his four year old son, Dennis Ketcham.

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*Identify the woman in the photograph.

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Angela Merkel

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“Nothing bad can happen to us if we're on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it.”

Who quoted the above line?

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Hashim Amla

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In 1970, which Grand slam became the first to use a tie-breaker at the end of a set?

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US Open

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The Nobel Peace Prize are awarded in Oslo, Norway. In which city are the other Nobel Prizes awarded in?

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Stockholm, Sweden

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X is the 212th richest person in the world according to Forbes' 2010 list of billionaires, with an estimated net worth of approximately £2.97 billion. His first successful business venture was a magazine called Student at age 16. In 1970, he set up an audio record mail-order business. In 1972, he opened a chain of record stores, Y Records, later known as Y Megastores. In 1998, X released his autobiography, titled Losing My Virginity, an international best-seller.

Identify X and Y.13

X is Richard BransonY is Virgin

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Solve this Rebus’ puzzle.

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Three blind mice

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The goal is to climb a greased pole with a ham on top. As this happens, the revellers work into a frenzy of singing and dancing whilst being showered in water from hoses. Once someone is able to drop the ham off the pole, the start signal for the tomato fight is given. The signal for the onset is at about 11 when a loud shot rings out, and the chaos begins.What event is being described here?

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La Tamatina (The Tomato Festival) in Valencia, Spain.

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ROUND ONE

MAINS

INFINITE BOUNCE

This round has 18 questions of variable weightage. Questions can be passed onto the next team. There is no negative marking incase a wrong answer is given.

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Eric Cantona , George Best ,Bryan Robson, David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo.What is common in the names above apart from the fact that they have played for Manchester United?

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All these footballers have worn jersey number 7.

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Connect these images.

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Bombay to Goa

Usha Uthup had made a cameo in the Amitabh Bachchan starrer Bombay to Goa (1972).

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X is an American animated television series created by Van Partible for Cartoon Network. The series takes its roots from a senior thesis project the creator Van Partible did for Loyola Marymount University, about an Elvis Presley impersonator. Today, the series is often labeled a classic of the late 1990s Cartoon Network cartoons.

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X is Johnny Bravo.

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Akio Morita founded Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation) in 1946. Its first product was a X which was a disaster, selling less than 100 units. This first setback didn't stop Morita and his partners as they pushed forward to create a multi-billion dollar company. In 1958 Morita changes the company’s name to Y reasoning that the name of the company to something that was easier to pronounce and remember, in order for the company to grow and increase its presence globally. Identify X and Y.

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+10,+5

X is a rice cooker.Y is Sony.

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What is the phobia of palindromes known as?

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Aibohphobia

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Over a 100,000 followers, but following no one. The description reads "The hero Twitter deserves, but not the one it needs. So you'll follow him. Because he can take it." Who does this twitter belong to?

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The Batman

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This Google Doodle was put up on January 1, 2008. One reason was the New Year, what was the other?

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+10

25 years of TCP/IP

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Are we going live?

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Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler, Tina Fey and Billy Crystal have all been writers for Saturday Night Live.

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X is a famous American film director, screenwriter, film producer. he was rejected from the University of Southern California School of Theater, Film and Television three times. He eventually attended school at another location, only to drop out to become a director before finishing. Thirty-five years after starting his degree, X returned to school in 2002 to finally complete his work and earn his BA.Who is X? 10

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X is Steven Spielberg

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What is special about the flags shown in the picture below?

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+10

These are the flags of the Nordic countries Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

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 X is an unofficial role in ice hockey. The term is sometimes used synonymously with "fighter", "tough guy", "cementhead" or "goon". X’s job is to deter and respond to dirty or violent play by the opposition. When such play occurs, the X is expected to respond aggressively, by fighting or checking the offender. Xs are different from Y players who seek to agitate opponents and distract them from the game, without necessarily fighting them. The Y’s primary role is to draw penalties from opposing players, thus "getting them off their game," while not actually intending to fight .Identify X and Y.

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X is an enforcer and Y is a pest

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Table tennis, also known as Ping-Pong, was banned in the Soviet Union between 1930 and 1950.What was the reason?

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The Soviet rulers believed that the game had an adverse effect on the players’ eyes.

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This photograph by David Hume Kennerly won him the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1982. What does it capture?

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The attempted assassination of US President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981.

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This house in the Welsh city of Swansea recently gained popularity over the Internet. Why?

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+10

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It is the house that looks like Hitler.

This nation has the highest percentage of overweight population in the world, over 94.5%.Identify the nation.

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+10

The South Pacific island nation of Nauru

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+10 Connect!

ScotlandScottish actor James McAvoy known for his role in The Last King of Scotland.Tartan army is a name given to the fans of the Scotland national football team.Logo of the Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland. 17

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It was The fifth test of the 1999-2000 South Africa versus England series at Centurion .On the 5th day south African captain Hansie Cronje went up to his English counterpart Nasser Hussain and proposed to do something to make the match more interesting. Both the captains then agreed to do what had never been done before. It was later learnt Cronje accepted money and a gift from a bookmaker to do what he did. What transpired?

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Hansie Cronje, the South African captain, entered into a deal with his English counterpart, Nasser Hussain, that South Africa would continue batting till they reached about 250 and then declare. England and then South Africa would then both forfeit an innings.

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CHALLENGE

This round has eight categories. Team with the lowest score gets to challenge any team it wishes to. A team challenged once cannot be challenged again. Incase the team challenged is unable to answer the question or answers wrongly, it gives 20 points from its score to the challenging team.

LITERATURE“I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'”

LITERATURE Samuel Langhorne Clemens

LITERATUREMark Twain, author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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CURRENT AFFAIRS

CURRENT AFFAIRS

The Royal WeddingKate Middleton and Prince William of Wales to get married on 29 April, 2011.

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MOVIES

MOVIES Movies directed by Danny Boyle.

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SCIENCE

The Yugoslav dinar during Yugoslavia’s Hyperinflation. Identify the man on the currency note.

SCIENCE

Nicola Tesla

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SPORTSIn September 2010, X came under fire when X made a homophobic remark on Twitter following a Rugby Union match in which the Australian Wallabies defeated the South African Springboks. X’s Twitter message said "Suck on that faggots!". X later removed the remark and apologized for it, however X's sponsor Jaguar severed all ties with X and requested the return of a loan vehicle.Identify X.

SPORTSStephanie Rice

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MONUMENTS OF THE WORLDOne of the most recent monuments to gather so much controversy has been X, which opened in 2004. The controversies of this monument lay almost entirely with the choice of design and location. Dropped into the national mall between the Washington Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial (at the Rainbow Pool), the memorial is a rather large 7.4 acres in total area consumed. This interruption of the line of sight between the two famous landmarks drew a large target from national mall conservation groups, who remarked that the place had not just been famous for the landmarks, but also for the events that had happened there, such as the Million Man March and numerous protests .Its pure size is one of the reasons architecture critics loathed its designs so much. It was argued by several critics that the design was straight out of same books that the dictators America was fighting would've picked up for inspiration.What is X?

MONUMENTS OF THE WORLDThe World War II Memorial

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ENTERTAINMENT

Identify the men in this photograph.

ENTERTAINMENT

Laurel and Hardy

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INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

X was a Pakistani politician who was known as the father of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program. He was the founder of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). X was executed under the directives of Y in 1979.Name X and Y.

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

X is Zulfikar Ali BhuttoY is Muhammed Zia-Ul-Haq

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THE GRAND CONNECT

This round has 6 questions. Answering correctly on the first, second, third and fourth hints will earn you 60,40,20 and 10 points respectively whereas wrong answers will take away 40,20 and 10 points respectively. No further hints to be revealed if the question has been answered by a team.

GRAND CONNECT ONE

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Microsoft Windows codenamesChicago (Windows 95)Vienna (Windows 7)Red Dog (Windows Azure)Longhorn (Windows Vista)

GRAND CONNECT TWO

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Brand names associated with Greco/Roman Mythology.

Mars (The God of War)Starbucks Coffee (Siren, the seductive mermaid)Nike (The Goddess of Victory)Apollo Hospitals (The Greek God of music and healing)

GRAND CONNECT THREE

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Movies starring RajnikanthMuthuGeraftarSivaji – The BossRobot

GRAND CONNECT FOUR

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Different names for the same drug

Mary JaneBuddhaPotGrass

GRAND CONNECT FIVE

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Cartoon characters from TINKLE comics

Ramu and ShamuKaalia the crowShikari ShambuSuppandi

GRAND CONNECT SIX

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