The Lame quiz PRELIMS

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With contributions from Ghabhutu

Rules Each question is worth 10 points. Need exact answers for full points. Halves wont be given. Some questions have 2 parts. Each part is worth 10.

Star marked questions will be tie breaker questions.

Write your names, institute name and a contact no. No googling/ cartel formation (will lead to disqualification)

Q1 It all started while staying together in the same dorm at the

University College of London in the mid 90s.They wanted to name themselves “starfish”, but when one of their friends’ group no longer wanted to use the name X, taken from name of  a book of poems written by American Poet Philip horky they gleefully accepted it.

Id this British group, who have been going strong ever since 1996.

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Q2- Whose summer playlist?

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Q3 X is a painting in the initial stages in the Blue Period of Picasso.

It was found to have a different painting hidden under it using X-ray technology in 2014 by a group of art historians and scientists from the Phillips Collection in Washington.

In X we can see Picasso’s blue period being fully developed. His cool hues and strong use of natural light draws the viewer in. Although the painting could be described as patchy or mildly unclear, the subject and scene are still identifiable.

Id X.

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Q4- Is quiz mein bohot haiWikipedia says this about what? It is the entirety of attitudes, ideas, images, perspectives, and other

phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture.

It is often viewed as being trivial and "dumbed down" in order to find consensual acceptance and associated with poor education and the lower classes

As a result many religious groups deem it superficial, consumerist, sensationalist, and corrupted.

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Q6-Navigator

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This scene from the James Bond classic “From Russia with Love”, plays tribute to which Hitchcock classic?

Q7- He ain’t snowballin’

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ID the man on the far right. Born in Ukraine and completed his studies in Germany.

Q8 * This popular English nursery rhyme, which reads like a

solicitation for gardening advice, is actually a recounting of the homicidal nature of Queen Mary I of England whose reign was marked with the execution of hundreds of Protestants.

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Q9 XY was weekly radio broadcast counting down the top Filmi Bollywood was

broadcast on Radio Ceylon from 1952 to 1988 and then shifted to Vividh Bharati service of All India Radio network in 1989 where it ran till 1994.

The program was sponsored by X, an oral hygiene brand.

Give me: XY for 10andthe parent company of X for 10

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Q10 Emma Thomas is currently a British film producer, who worked

as a script supervisor earlier and was an assistant to director Stephen Frears on High Fidelity (2000).Thomas graduated from University College London where she met her future husband. Since 1997, she has produced all her husband’s movies.

Who is the lucky husband?(image on next slide)

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Q11 This music band from Pakistan, closely connect with the Chishti order. The

periodic repeated use of "Allah" during songs has become their signature.

They are considered the first exponents of Qawwali music to the West, when they performed at New York's Carnegie Hall in 1975

Coke Studio Season 8 paid a special tribute to them by Atif Aslam performing the all-time hit Tajdar-e-Haram

ID this music group

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Q12 X was born in Brazil and attended a Jesuit school. As a teenager, he wanted

to become a writer. Upon telling his mother this, she responded, "My dear, your father is an engineer. He's a logical, reasonable man with a very clear vision of the world. Do you actually know what it means to be a writer?”

At 17, he's introversion and opposition to following a traditional path led to his parents committing him to a mental institution from which he escaped three times before being released at the age of 20.

But he finally got immense fame with his 1986 novel. The author has sold 210 million copies worldwide and is the all-time bestselling Portuguese language author. Who is this gentleman?

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Q13- Not Kaccha Papad

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Q14* X is a British dystopian, romantic drama based on Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005

novel of the same name.

In this fictional universe, humans have prolonged lives. . It is narrated by 28-year-old Kathy H (Carey Mulligan) as she reminisces about her childhood at a boarding school called Hailsham, as well as her adult life after leaving the school. However, the chief protagonist later reveals that they are all clones and are destined to be organ donors.

ID this film, also starring Andrew Garfield and Kiera Knightley

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Q15 X was born on September 20, 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey. His writing style developed early  in his childhood where he wrote stories

about a mythical kingdom populated by his pet turtles; the turtles died frequently in their toy castle, so he finally decided they

were killing each other off in "sinister plots", something that deeply reflects in his famous works.;

In 2005, Lev Grossman of Time called X "the American Y” and the magazine later named him one of the "2011 Time 100", a list of the "most influential people in the world."

ID X and Y.

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Q16 The name of X, a famous character  is not a Jewish name. However, some

scholars believe it probably derives from the biblical name Shalah.

Other scholars emphasize that, although the name echoes some Hebrew names, X was a common sixteenth-century English name with Saxon origin, meaning "white-haired."

The X’s of sixteenth-century London included "goldsmiths, mercers, and, most visibly of all, scriveners," according to prominent scholar Stephen Orgel, a Stanford professor.

ID  X and what creation was he a part of. (for 10)

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Q17 This phrase although very casually mentioned in this very famous

series is a motivation for a plethora of jokes and memes on the internet.

But it led to a paradox that made many people actually think and look for  logical reasons behind this phenomenon, which has been appropriately named The _____ ____ Paradox.

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Q18* This contest took place in ancient Greece in the era of

Greek Gods and was a showdown between a mortal and a god.

The contest was a fierce battle between a smug mortal and an unforgiving god and was deeply woven in the ideals that  mortals should know their place and that  sometimes a god needed to be cruel to someone who had the audacity to challenge their skills.

ID the participants of this contest. (for 10 each)IIT ROORKEE, COGNIZANCE | MELA QUIZ | NIKHIL ARORA, SAURAV MAHALE

Q19* X was an11th century Anglo Saxon noblewoman who according to a legend,

rode naked through the streets of Coventry in order to gain remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants.

The name "Peeping Tom" for a voyeur originates from later versions of this legend in which a man named Tom watched her ride and was struck blind or dead.

X has been mentioned in a Queen classic.

ID both X and Y for 10 each

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Q20 The early webcasts were criticized for poor connection, and users that could

connect were subjected to low video quality. One critic from The New York Times described the initial 20th-century webcast experience as having felt like he was "watching a striptease through a keyhole“

Which annual event does this critic describe which has featured artists like Phil Collins, Taylor Swift, Hozier and Destiny’s child

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