Agnitus 2k16 finals

AGNITUS 2K16FINALS

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ROUND 1• 8 Question Clockwise • Infinite Bounce and Pounce• +10 & -10 for a Pounce• Sorry you cant pounce your direct Question• If a Question is unanswered same team will get the next

Question.• Here we go…

1• Named after his father A. C. Moosa, Mosons group was

founded by Mr. MP Anwer in 1976 in Thalasseri. Started off with a coconut manufacturing unit, the legacy was continued when the company successfully produced Extra Virgin type oil for the first time in India.

• The flagship brand of the company was launched in 2009. This Rs 330cr “valued” brand was believed to be named after the lead character from a 1889 work published from Thalasseri.

• Just identify the brand?

And the answer is…

Indulekha • The lead character of the first “perfect” novel in

Malayalam literature by O. Chandumenon.• Recently acquired by Hindustan Unilever for Rs 330cr.

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• In the late 1940s, inspired from René Lacoste's shirts, Tibby Wegner, an Austrian footballer approached a British sporting legend to launch a Tennis apparel brand named after him. Finally launched at Wimbledon in 1952, the brand was an immediate success.

• The brand's logo is a laurel wreath. It was based on the original symbol for Wimbledon. And was previously the clothing sponsor of Andy Murray.

• Identify this brand named after a former Table Tennis World Champion?

• Fred Perry was the last Britton to win Wimbledon and Davis cup before Andy Murray, Surprisingly he was 1929 world Table Tennis Champion also.

3• This is a photoshopped picture of late Princess

Diana meeting Kate Middleton and contemplating the new born Royal baby. Even though the creator was unknown, the picture was highly praised by the internet media for it’s perfection.

• But the original picture of Diana was taken from a 1997 photograph of her meeting a world famous person. Diana was very tall and in high heel, has to bend down to talk this person giving much respect, who was short.

• Who was this person? Or from where was this photo of Diana taken?

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4• After the de-recognition of student study circle by IIT

Madras last year, students from IIT Bombay and TISS created their own version of study circle as a mark of solidarity.

• They named their club after three prominent social reformers of the country. Two from Maharashtra and one from Tamilnadu.

• Either list out all the three or just name the club.

Ambedkar, Periyar, Phule

5• This 1998 biopic opens with the words of Stanley Wolpert:

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world.

Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state.

________ ___ ______ did all three.

• Either identify the movie or Fill in the blank.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

6• Who in 1989 translated 33 African poems from 13 African

countries, to which he received a thanks giving letter from Nelson Mandela?

Puthussery Ramachandran

7• The Great Fire of London was occurred from 2

September to, 5 September 1666. It consumed 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches and destroyed the homes of 70,000 of the City's 80,000 inhabitants.

• But one of the useful aftermath of this great fire saved the life of thousands of people in future. How?

Burning down the remaining bacteria of the Great Plague of London (1665-1666)

• Fire saved lives in the long run by burning down so much unsanitary housing with their rats and their fleas which transmitted the plague preventing subsequent major outbreaks.

8• Couple of months back Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamat

(TNTJ) had issued a Fatwa on products from ‘Patanjali’ group.

• What was the reason behind this ban?

• Varies Patanjali products used cow urine as a key ingredient. TNTJ says their use was considered ‘haram’ (forbidden) in Islam.

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Round 2 : List it.• 10 answers• 3 points each

• Sorry, no bonus points if you correct all the 10.• Please number from 1 to 10 and try to write only 10

answers, will count the first 10 answers only • Here we go…

List out the top 10 Batsmen in test cricket as per latest ICC Rankings.

• 1• 2• 3• 4• 5• 6• 7• 8• 9• 10

Check and spelling• 1. Steven Smith• 2. Kane Williamson• 3. Joe Root• 4. Hashim Amla• 5. David Warner• 6. Younus Khan • 7. AB de Villiers • 8. Angelo Mathews• 9. Misbah Ul Haq• 10. Ajinkya Rahane

ROUND 3• 8 Question Anti Clockwise • Infinite Bounce and Pounce• +10 & -10 for a Pounce• Sorry you cant pounce your direct Question• If a Question is unanswered same team will get the next


1• Once there was a time Heroine was smuggled from Turkey to US through France. The operation reached its peak in 1960s & 70s, when it provided the vast majority of the illicit heroin used in the US and Canada. The police term for this scheme inspired the title of a 1969 book which was made to a 1971 Hollywood movie. ( Incidentally this was the first R-rated movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture)

• Identify this term/book or the movie which also shares its name with a UK-based fashion brand known for its little annoying abbreviation.

2• “Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea

which at a distance of 20 meters transforms into the portrait of X (Homage to Y)” is a 1976 painting by Salvador Dalí.

• This curious painting, at a closer look appears to be just that, Gala looking out the window, but from a distance (say 20m) appears to be the portrait of X.

• Identify X?• Born as Elena Ivanovna Diakonova in 1894

in Kazan, Russian empire, and the model of many paintings by Dali, who was Gala?

• Dali gave homage to Y through this painting, who was suicide in 1970. Also identify Y?

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X- Abraham Lincoln, Y- Mark Rothko• Gala was Salvador Dali’s wife. (see the gif image)

3• The most amazing fact about the duo X and Y is that both

were born in Tamilnadu and shares the same date of birth!!! 1 March 1926.

• At the age of 8, X migrate to Bombay with his father and started a bicycle repair shop. Later he founded Dalit Muslim Suraksha Maha Sangh in 1984 in Mumbai. Amitabh Bachan’s character in the movie “Deewar” was inspired from X’s life.

• Mani Ratnam’s movie “Nayakan” was based on Y. It uses the life of Y as a reference point.

• When Y died a aged death in Tamilnadu in 1988, his body was taken to Mumbai in a chartered flight by X as per Y’s wishes.

• Identify X & Y?

• X –Haji Mastan • Y –Varadarajan Mudaliar

4• Whose smile was once Albert Camus compared to that of

the Mona Lisa? He once owned a copy of this item.• Vladimir Nabokov wrote a poem in 1934 as a tribute to

this. Often called “Ophelia of the Seine”, the earliest mention can be found in Richard Le Gallienne's 1900 novella The Worshipper of the Image, in which an English poet falls in love with this, eventually leading to the death of his daughter and the suicide of his wife.

The model of CPR doll• L’inconnue de la Seine (“The Unknown Woman of the

Seine”)

5• In computer science, what term is used to describe

“putting files infected by computer viruses into a special directory, so as to eliminate the threat they pose, without irreversibly deleting them”.?

• Also the title of many science fiction movies, this term is often used in connection to disease and illness.

Quarantine

6) What am I talking about?• Damien Lewis: Age 44, Reddish hair with resemblance to X

makes him the most favorite in the list. He is nicknamed Ginger X.

• Edris Elba: If he is selected. Then he must be the first black X.• Tom Hardy: His flexible body and action makes him the most

popular one in the race.• Robbie Williams: He once imitated X in his video song titled “

Millennium”.• Michael Fasbender: Age 38. The German-born actor exhibited

great skills while portraying Macbeth and Steve Jobs. Also his handsome look gives him an additional advantage.

• David Beckham: There were some rumors that Beckham was selected but he denied all.

Who will be the next Bond?

7• “Receive and respond to notifications in an instant. Track

Your daily activity. Start a work put using only your voice. Never lose your boarding pass. With X, important information and essential features are always just a raise of the ___ away”.

• Advertisement of a product which is marketed and distributed in India by Redington and Ingram Micro.

• Just identify this product?

Apple Watches

8• His real name was Guan Moye. His popular name,

meaning "don't speak“ was the warning given him by his parents fearing the Mao Zedong Government.

• Identify him?

Mo Yan

Scores

Round 4 : Written Round• 6 Questions• 5 points each

• Again Sorry, no bonus• Here we go…

Quotes of 2015 from the SPORTS WORLD

Questions

1

• “Getting a Hundred in 31 balls was unheard of. I took 31 balls to get off the mark”

• Whose quote? What was the occasion?• (2.5 points each)

2

• “I didn’t even get married in white”

• What was US tennis player Bethanie Mattek-Sands complaining about?

3

• “ It would be having a more open, honest relationship with my ex-wife”

• Whose reply, after being asked what he would change most in his life and career as he approaches 40?

4

• “I am a mountain goat that keeps going and going and going. I cannot be stopped. I just keep going”

• Before his re-election for a “fifth” term, who was quoted like this?

5

• “I never dreamt I’d be able to get eight wickets in a spell. My previous best ever bowling was seven for twelve against Kim Bolton School Under-15s”

• Whose quote after his career best performance?

6

• “I’m a totally normal guy, I’m the normal one”

• When asked how he would describe himself, this is what Jurgen Klopp said when he faced the media for the first time as Liverpool manager. He was actually referring another press conference by a person that happened way back in 2004.

• Who was that person? which resulted in the media giving him a nickname, and many football memes.

Exchange the Sheets

Quotes of 2015 from the SPORTS WORLD

Answers

1

• “Getting a Hundred in 31 balls was unheard of. I took 31 balls to get off the mark”

• Whose quote? What was the occasion?

• Sunil Gavaskar when AB de Villiers scored a 31 ball hundred.

2

• “I didn’t even get married in white”

• What was US tennis player Bethanie Mattek-Sands complaining about?

The Wimbledon dress code

3

• “ It would be having a more open, honest relationship with my ex-wife”

• Whose reply, after being asked what he would change most in his life and career as he approaches 40?

Tiger Woods

4

• “I am a mountain goat that keeps going and going and going. I cannot be stopped. I just keep going”

• Before his re-election for a “fifth” term, who was quoted like this?

Sepp Blatter• Before his fifth term as FIFA president.

5

• “I never dreamt I’d be able to get eight wickets in a spell. My previous best ever bowling was seven for twelve against Kim Bolton School Under-15s”

• Whose quote after his career best performance?

Stuart Broad• After his 8/15 at Trent Bridge against Australia.

6

• “I’m a totally normal guy, I’m the normal one”

• When asked how he would describe himself, this is what Jurgen Klopp said when he faced the media for the first time as Liverpool manager. He was actually referring another press conference by a person that happened way back in 2004.

• Who was that person? which resulted in the media giving him a nickname, and many football memes.

Jose Mourinho, The Special One

ROUND 5: 15 Pointer• 6 Question Clockwise • Infinite Bounce and Pounce• +15 & -10 for a Pounce• Sorry you cant pounce your direct Question• If a Question is unanswered same team will get the next


1• Nobody has any idea about how this mistake happened. Most of the people think that the person in charge must be a Manchester United supporter and thought nobody will notice. Or probably just wanted to troll X.

• As of April 2014, the Indian government had decided to drop the image because of its "poor quality", rather than admitting it's mistake. As usual, various government institutions kept shifting the blame onto one another.

• What am I talking about?

Is this John Terry in the Gold Flake Statutory warning?

2• Samajwadi Party bought rights to a 1989 classic song for their 2014 election campaign. Inspired from this song, they created their own version of the song called “Mann se hai Mulayam….aur irada loha hai!” (He is soft-hearted but iron-willed).

• The song’s lyrics mention iconic socialist leaders like Ram Manohar Lohia ,Jai Prakash Narayan, Charan Singh etc… The song seems to sound like a much softer version from the original but still attempts to deliver a strong message to garner support from the people.

• Just identify the original song?

And the answer is…• Video Removed.

3• As said by photo journalist Pablo Bartholomew, • During 1970s there was a collaboration between two Delhi

colleges St Stephen’s and Miranda House. Whenever St Stephen’s would need women actors, they’d get them from Miranda House; whenever Miranda House would need male actors, they’d come from St Stephen’s.

• So what was resulted out of this collaboration between these two Delhi colleges in 1970s? That also gave Bartholomew a rare and now ‘astonishing’ photograph of two well known Indians.

Mira Nair and Shashi Tharoor as Cleopatra and Antony in the play Cleopatra by Mira Nair

4• Born in Munich, Germany, Walter Sickert was a painter and

printmaker who lived in London. A prominent figure in the transition from Impressionism to Modernism, he took a keen interest to portray crime scenes in his works.

• During early 2000s, American novelist Patricia Cornwell, purchased 31 of Sickert's paintings. After closely examining the plots of these paintings and comparing the DNA of Sickert with Mitochondrial DNA from one of more than hundreds of letters by a person from 1888 to 1891, she claimed that she has proved some conspiracy theory which was originally developed by English journalist and author Stephen Knight in 1976.

• What was her claim?

(Pic Follows)

Walter Sickert and his paintings

He was Jack the Ripper• Many of Sickert’s painting were actually resembling

Ripper’s crime scenes.

5) Who is the missing person? Also identify what list is this?

Angela Merkel• Women to become TIME person of the year

6• Unlike other sporting icons Christiano

Ronaldo don’t have any tattoos on his body. The reason behind this is due to a certain ‘practice’ he undergo once in every six months.

• Why Christiano Ronaldo don’t have any tattoos on his body?

Blood donation• He donates blood twice a year. • Tattoo stains will spread in blood and will cause cross-

contamination and diseases like hepatitis

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Round 6 : Long Visual Connect• 12 visuals will be shown one by one• Give me the over all connect between these visuals• In Exhaustive list• Points at each visual is shown

• This is the last round, all the best!• May the force with you…

+40 & - 20

+35 & -20

+30 & -15

+25 & -15

+20 & -10

+15 & -10

+10 & -5

+5 & 0

What’s the Connection?• Peter o‘Toole• Paul Allen• Dustin Hoffman• Robert De Niro• Wole Soyinka• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn• Cristina Fernández Kirchner• Desmond Tutu• Gautami• Innocent• Mamta Mohandas• Yuvraj Singh

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