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Host: Anindya Das and Md. Jasimuddin

Research: Anindya Das and Md. Jasimuddin39th Annual EDSEM QUIZ FEST

Flow of the EveningIn total 7 RoundsInitially there will be 3 Rounds of Dry QuestionsOne Written Round of 10 Questions (5 points each. Team getting all 10 will get bonus 20) 2 Rounds of Dry Questions AgainOne Special RoundCorrect Answers will fetch 10 pointsInfinite Bounce and Infinite Pounce Infinite Pounce 15 Secs (10/-10)

Round 1

Many teams in the world retire a jersey number to show respect to a legendary player who had served the club or for the clubs supporters. Some retirements are permanent while others are brought back. Why did Leeds United retire jersey number 15 in year 2007-08

Financial Meltdown at Leeds United saw them in the third tier of English Football and nearly resulted in being expelled from Football League. They entered the 2007-08 season with 15 points penalty

Claim to Fame Venerial Burney was a Chartered Accountant and taught economics and mathematics at girls school in southwest London. She died on 30th Apr 2009 aged 90. What is her claim to fame which saw Asteroid to be named 6235 Burney in her honor and Rock Band The Venetia Fair to be named after her. The space probe New Horizons is also carrying an instrument named after her

She was the one to give the name Pluto on 14 Mar 1930 The Roman God of Underworld who was able to make himself invisible

What is depicted here

Tea Ceremony

What is the context hereTurning X was a turning point for me. Teetering on the edge of being an old adolescent and a fully-fledged adult, I made the decision to go into becoming who Im going to be forever without a removal van full of my old junk. When I was in my past I wanted out! So typical. Im on about being a teenager , sitting around and chit chatting shit, not caring about future because it didnt matter like it does now. X is about getting to know who Ive become without realizing.

Da Vinci Surgical SystemA robotic surgical system which facilitates complex surgery using minimal invasive approach controlled by a surgeon using a console. It is commonly used for prostatectomies, caridac valve repair and gynecological surgical procedures. Give me the funda behind naming it after da-Vinci

da-Vincis study of the human anatomy led to the design of first known robot in history (humanoid robot)

Connect

Neerja Bhanot

Terrorist Org: Abu Nidal Organization part of the Palestine Liberation Organization15

Just before the start of the tournament, first choice center forward Rene Bliard walloped the ground when he went to strike the ball, hurt his ankle and had to be sent home. Who was the reserve who stepped in.

Just Fontaine

What is being depicted here

The Battle of Thermopylae

Scores PleaseEnd of Round 1

Round 2

Singapore AirlinesSingapore Airlines in-flight guide has the following disclaimers / warnings for movies: Violence, Adult Situations, Language and Extreme Horror Scenes. In 2000 it added another disclaimer Aircraft Issues from one particular movie. Identify the movie.

Pan Trinity Das is a Canadian spiritual artist who had been seen painting in the walls of half the cities and villages he had travelled in India. After suggestion from a musician Parker Ainsworth he landed up in this abandoned place where he met some musicians including Ian Ether to shoot a music video. While creating the portrait for the video he envisioned to transform the entire hall into a gallery. How do we know this place ?

Some street art of Pan are shown next

Beatles Cathedral Gallery, Hrishikesh

Connect

Find the relationYearDate2000-0117 Apr '012001-0218 Mar '022002-0324 Mar '032003-0413 Mar '042004-052 Apr '052005-067 May '062006-0721 Apr '072007-089 Mar '082008-0911 Apr '092009-109 May '102010-117 May '112011-1213 May '122012-1319 May '132013-1428 Apr '142014-154 May '15

Saint Totteringhams Day

Whats in India

China Ubuntu KylinCuba NovaIndonesia IGOS NusantraNorth Korea Red StarIran ZaminTurkey - Pardus32

Identify XIn 1980s while the west towers were under construction, Washington National Cathedral held a decorative sculpture competition for children. Word of the competition was spread nationwide by National Geographic World Magazine. The third place winner was Christopher Rader and his drawing was sculpted by Jay Hall Carpenter, carved by Patrick J. Plunkett and placed high upon the northwest tower of the Cathedral

Identify the sonSatyavati had a son with Rishi Parashurama before her marriage with Kind Shantanu. She exacted three wishes out of the sage before his advances, one being that their son would become a great sage. Soon Satyavati gave birth on an island in Yamuna. Identify this son ?

Rishi Vyasa

Mount AraratMt. Ararat is the national symbol of Armenia. It consists of two dormant snow capped volcanoes at elevation of 12,000 17,000 ft. It is also said that the Armenians have a sense of possession of the mountain in the sense of symbolic cultural property. Along with it being featured in coat of arms in Armenia it also has a Biblical significance.

Landing place of Noahs Ark after the great floods

Scores PleaseEnd of Round 2

Round 3

Identify

This place in Shivaji Nagar, Pune holds the office of Ajinkya Developers along with some other real estate firms, an advocates office and office of an insurance broker. Every year on November 15 a unique item is brought out from this building for a ceremony. What am I talking about

Ashes of Nathuram Godse

Identify X and YX was first conceived by Will Glaser and Tim Westergren in late 1999. It is an effort to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level using over 450 attributes to describe songs and complex mathematical algorithm to organize them. X is currently made up of 5 sub-genomes: Pop/Rock, Hip-Hop/Electronica, Jazz, World Music, and Classical.X was completely developed by Y and currently limit its use just for their own users

Music Genome Project

Connect

Nominated but not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Ariel Zev Emanuel is an American Talent Agent and co-CEO of William Moris Endeavour. He is described as 21st Century Hollywood Mogul and his style & persona has supposedly inspired several fictional characters. One of them being Ari Gold in Entourage. Name the other.

Identify the musicalThis innovative theatrical musical was created by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan and debuted off-Broadway in 1969 and 1970 in London. Initially it ran for over 3900 performances in London and 1314 in NYC. Revivals enjoyed even longer runs including a Broadway revival running for 5959 performances making it longest running Broadway classical at that time.

The show sparked considerable controversy at the time, because it featured extended scenes of total nudity, both male and female. The title is taken from a painting by Clovis Trouille, itself a punon "O quel cul t'as! Frenchfor "What an arseyou have!".

This is a a dungeon inside the old Fort Williams, Kolkata Nawab Siraj-ud-Dualah held British POWS after capture of the fort on 20 June, 1756. Cramped space inside the dungeon led to the death of 123 out of 146 prisoners due to suffocation, heat exhaustion and crushing. This tragic incident was the original inspiration for one of the astronomical features. Identify.

Black Hole Tragedy of Calcutta

Put Funda - Reference

Philippines cab drivers wearing crown to support new Ms Universe - Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach

This is USS Missouri (Mighty Mo or Big Mo), an Iowa-class battleship commissioned in 1944. She participated in the Battle of Iwo Jima & Okinawa and shelled Jap home islands. Later she had also participated in the Korean War (1950 to 1953) and provided fire support during Operation Desert Storm in Jan/Feb 1991. What is her claim to Fame ?

Surrender of Japan took place on board this ship

Scores PleaseEnd of Round 3

Round 4

Identify the personalityNation of Islam (NOI) is an Islamic movement founded on 4th of July, 1930 in Detroit by Wallace Fard Muhammad. Its main aim was to improve spiritual, mental, social and economic condition of African Americans. Its official newspaper The Final Call had an estimated subscription base of 20,000 to 50,000. After Fards disappearance there were number of splits most notably of senior leader X to become Sunni Muslim.

X was a human rights activist and has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history

Malcom X

About which war did US WWII war hero Gen. Omar Bradley had this to :

This Strategy would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong group

Strategy to enlarge the Korean War to include Red China

Identify the movie

Identify XAccording to his mother X was a perfectionist from early days. At age of 5 he used to go to school with all his pens, crayons and ruler perfectly ordered and cased. When she signed him up for a business school aged 23 he quit the very next day. In 2011 he was named Rockstar of the year by the Spanish Edition of Rolling Stone Magazine and featured in the front cover of the Dec edition

Identify the writer and the subject

Writer = Linus TrovaldsSubject = Tux, the penguin

Identify Softcard is a JV between AT&t, Verizon and T-Mobile to produce a mobile payment platform using NFC technology for payment with credentials stored in the smartphone. In Feb 2015 Google acquired Softcard and integrate it into Google Wallet service. In 2014 the company changed its name to Softcard. What was its previous name ?

Lewandowski to BlackburnAfter his 4 goal heroics against Real Madrid, Robert Lewandowski almost made a move to Blackburn Rovers from Dortmund. Dortmund even accepted Sam Allardyces GBP 4.2 offer and he was on his way to watch Rovers play Everton. What incident happened which resulted in him staying put in Dortmund and later move to Munich.

Ash cloud of Eyjafjallajkull

What is Coca Cola Happy Flag Campaign

Scores PleaseEnd of Round 4

Round 5

In early 2000s, which consumer product was boycotted in some countries Middle East after rumors that it was named after a leader that they opposed and its logo similar to a symbol they hated

To commemorate the 9/11 anniversary artist Jitesh Kalat unveilled an art installation in Chicago. These consisted of some words in five colors.

What is written and why were these colors chosen

Swami Vivekanandas speech at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Zhang Chongren was a Chinese artist and sculpture who studied in Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium. His friendship with X earned him recognition across Europe. X mocks his own navet deep insidewhen he shares with Zhang his view on the white devils. X lost contact with Zhang during the invasion of China by Japan but would meet again after four decades. How is Zhang widely etched in memory.

Character Chang in Tintin

What is being discussed hereThis idea occurred from what X and her father developed for Ys fragrance introduced in 2003. Result was a freehand swiggle. In the words of Michael Beirut, partner in Pentagram I think its a nice balancing act the idea of tradition with this serif font and modernity with the missing parts of the letters, asking your minds eye to fill in whats not there.

Scarf for USD 461 !!!!Dot One is a start up that is involved in selling customized scarfs. Each scarf can take you back by USD 461. What is so unique about these scarfs

Clue: Pic of the scarf in next slide if needed

Personalized Scarf imprinting the DNA of the individual

Identify X and YX had employed the services of Y to design an ash-tray to be given to lucky passengers. According to Y - "The reflection of an elephants head looks like a swan and the reflection of a swan appears to be an elephant. This is what I have done for the ashtray. The swan up-side-down becomes an elephants head and the elephant inverted - a swan."

Hejny, an audio engineer from Nashville, TN was inspired to create the wax four years ago when he was at a concert in Texas and saw a musician constantly disturbed with something. He wanted to walk on stage and hold something in place so that the drummer could focus on the music. This led to the creation of Nerd Wax.

What is the function of Nerd Wax

Helps to hold the spectacles in its place

What am I talking aboutThis is a variant of an American version with an Indian origin. It went viral during the 2nd half of 2014. It served the dual purpose of highlighting water scarcity and spreading the usefulness of ____. It was started by a Kerala based NGO and believes that it will create a positive social impact. It has also spread to other regions Canada, Vietnam and Bangladesh.

Scores PleaseEnd of Round 5

Connect of the ConnectsRound 6

Rules of the RoundEach set of two questions will lead to a connectEach question will fetch 10 pointsIf you identify the connect in the first question you will get 10. Wrong will fetch -5. Answer in the 2nd question will give you 5 no ve marksSo overall there will be four connectsThese four connects will lead to the Mega-Connect Answering the Mega Connect in the first clue will fetch 40 points and wrong will be -20. Further Mega Connect marks will be (30/-15), (20,-10) and (10,0)

One of the greatest speeches in history

Eisenhower Battle of Normandy

Wheels of ZeusWheels of Zeus was founded in 2002. It made wireless hardware for keeping track of the physical location of enabled objects. The licensable technology consisted of three components Smart Tag, Tag Detector and Communication Service. It was shut down on Mar 2006. Who was the founder.

Connect

Recipients of Hoover Medal

Any Guesses

Guest AppearanceIt is very different from Live television there are no lines, its only you and there is no pressure of remembering lines. I find doing live television is much easier but maybe because it depends on what you are used to. In fiction there is pressure of remembering lines and delivering it with expression This was said by whom during his guest appearance in a new series Sumit Sambhal Lega which is an Indian adaptation of the popular American sitcom Everybody loves Raymond.

How do we commonly know this craterBessel A is a small, circular, bowl shaped lunar crater in the NE quadrant of the moon. It lies along the wrinkle ridge designated the Dorsum Azara. International Astronomical Union renamed it in 1973 to what ?

Sarabhai

Connect

IIMA

Any Guesses

Which bridge is referred hereOpened in 1914 this bridge was Indias longest sea bridge before the Bandra-Worli sea link in 2010. In 2007 upgradation was done to the bridge from meter guage to broad guage as part of Project Uniguage. Indian Railways has applied to UNESCO for the bridge to be made world heritage site

Pamban Bridge

The four sons of Dasaratha were very close to each other. Interestingly although Lakshmana and Shathrugna were twins, Lakshmana was more attached to Rama and similarly Shathrugna to Bharatha. Specific reason for this.

Kaushalya and Kaikeyi gave one portion of their divine payasam to Sumitra. Lakshmana was born out of the part given by Kaushalya and thus was part of the atma of Rama. Similar goes for Shathrugna.

Connect

Rameshwaram

Any Guesses

Whose scriptscataradikam satamastagunam dvasastistatha sahasranamayutadvayaviskambhasyasanno vrttaparinahah

This literally translates to: Add 4 to 100, multiply by eight, and then add 62,000. By this rule the circumference of a circle with a diameter of 20,000 can be approached

Aryabhatta

Identify the companyThis is a marketing firm for promotion and commercialization of space products, tech transfer and consultancy services. Clientele include Intelsat, Worldspace, Avanti Group. Inmarsat etc. Its name is derived from the Sanskrit word for space. It has found itself in troubled waters with Devas Multimedia for lease of S-Band spectrum.

Connect

Any Guesses

My Tribute to the Missile Man of India

Extras

Identify the kind of advertising

Surrogate Advertising

What is Google Calico

Project Calico is funded by Google and has Art Levinson, Chairman and former CEO of Genentech as its CEO. What is this companys ambition

Trying to prolong death

Complete the seriesSiachenGilgitBaltistanDafdurKanjutGhuar MotaKibithu ???

Indira Point

Nissim Ezekiel's poem is a set of instructions for whatDo not write letterWithout order refreshmentDo not combHair is spoiling floorDo not make mischief in cabinOur waiter is reportingCome againAll are welcome whatever casteIf not satisfied tell usOtherwise tell othersGod is great.

Irani Resturants

Which race formatBefore each race, fans can vote for their favorite driver via various social media channels to give them a little extra power boost. Voting starts about two weeks prior to an event and is also open during the opening six minutes of the race. The three winning Fanboost drivers each receive an extra 100 KJof energy to be used in a power window between 180 kW and 200 kW

Matti Jarvenin won the 1932 Olympic gold in Javelin for Finland. From 1930 to 1936 he broke the javelin world record a record 10 times in a row. During WW II he went to the Karelian Isthmus to train soldiers for war. What did he train them in.

He trained soldiers in throwing hand grenades

DestinoDestino is an animated short story released in 2003 follows the love story of Chronos and his ill-fated love for mortal Dahlia. This 6 min short film was conceptualized in 1945 but could not materialize due to the financial constraints of WWII. Identify the two legendary personalities involved in this film

Walt Disney and Salvador Dali

This dentist has his practice in Dobbs Ferry NY and is known as painless Dr. Z. The site says that it caters to the cowards and dental phobics of all ages for over 30 years. Give his full name

AudienceFlipkart started its journey from an apartment no 610 in Bangalore. How do the company commemorate this special number

Identify the IdiomThis idiom was first found in print in 1570 in New Sonnets and Pretty Pamphlets by Thomas Howell: _______________________________________,Waye wordes as winde, till thou finde certaintee.

Later Samuel Butler used the proverbial phrase of advice for rhyming in his poem Hudibras(1664):To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd,And______________________________.

It basically suggests to not think of the future before reaching it.

Count your chickens before they hatched

This is Quantas 737-800 plane, first revealed in Nov 2011. What is its nickname

Movember Plane

Identify the BookThis book was written by PC Balasubramaniam and Raja Krishnamoorthy, directors at Matrix Business Service India. It is titled: _____ Punchatantra: Business and Life Management the ______ way

It gives the management lessons in a unique way. Few being My way is a unique way, I deliver what I promise, and deliver even what I didnt.

Identify the book

Representation of What

Traffic in Orkut

What is the termIt is coined in 1897 by psychologists G. Stanley Hall and Arthur Allin. Two types of these are Knismesis Light and feather like touchGargalesis Harder touch to sensitive areas

What is the term Im looking for

Tickling

Political Propaganda in Turkey Elections. Identify the game

Agar.io

Tony Britten is a graduate from Royal College of Music. He worked as music supervisor in many shows and movies including Godspell, The Rocky Horror Show and Robocop. His most famous composition was heavily borrowed from George Handels Zadok the priest and it was performed by Londons Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

What do these graphs represent

Bharath Ratna Winners

Identify the movieFilmmaker Trevor Graham is an Australian X tragic'. Every week in his Bondi Beach home he observes the X making ritual, mashing Y, lemon juice, garlic and tahina. But when the X War erupted in 2008, among the usual suspects, Israel, Lebanon and Palestine, Graham was hungry for more. But this war had no soldiers, bullets or tanks. Just Y and X. But there's a personal story, how Graham became a X tragic, a father who served in Palestine during WW2 and two lovers in his life, one Syrian, one Jewish, with whom he shared a great culinary passion.