1.The General Quiz

2. FINALS 40 questions +20/-10 on pounce Infinite bounce Lets have FUN! 3. The Dolan comics were originally created during the summer of 2010 by artist Sakolut on the Finnish image board Kuvalauta. Titled Aku Ankka The first Dolan comic was posted approximately in May 2010.The repeated use of the word Dolan made the generic name of the comics to be Dolan comics. What am I talking about? 4. These comics feature poorly drawn MS Paint characters and misspelled captions in speech bubbles. 5. X is an Indian financial institution based in New Delhi, India. Dr. Manmohan Singh inaugurated the system on 19 November 2013 on the occasion of the 94th birth anniversary of Indira Gandhi. Although initially reported as an institution exclusively for women, it allows deposits to flow from everyone, but lending will be predominantly for women. 6. BHARATIYA MAHILA BANK 7. ID the book 8. THE BOY IN STRIPED PAJAMAS 9. Ban Bossy is the new initiative by Xs LeanIn.org and Girl Scouts of the USA to encourage girls to lead. They have enlisted an army of female icons like Beyonce, Victoria Beckham, and Condoleezza Rice to promote the campaign through a website, Twitter hashtags, videos, and educational downloads. Identify X? 10. SHERYL SANDBERG THE FB COO 11. The origin of X seems to be from Saint Peter, the first Pope, and one of the most revered figures in Catholic lore. When Peter was martyred by crucifixion he was said to have requested to be crucified upside down because he didn't feel worthy of dying the same way as Jesus. As a result, many dyed-in- the-wool Catholics actually consider the X to be more acceptable contrary to the popular belief. 12. THE INVERTED CROSS 13. FITB 14. Scholars trace the origin of this term X to the historical practice of itinerant judges on the U.S. frontier. These judges were paid on the basis of how many trials they conducted, and in some instances their salary depended on the fines from the defendants they convicted. The term comes from the image of these judges hopping from place to place, guided less by concern for justice than by the desire to wrap up as many trials as the day allowed. What term? 15. KANGAROO COURT 16. There was a porn adaptation of a certain fictional character made in 1975 titled "The American Adventures of X", featuring an all- male cast and a transvestite named "Maryarty". What is X? 17. The American Adventures of Surelick Holmes 18. X is a bakery chain founded in 1955 who was a market till early 1990s. It extended its brand to ice cream, soda ,noodles before it got taken over by Y, which is an Indian pastry and bakery chain based in Mumbai which was inititally started by two Italian brothers and later on taken over by the Khorakiwala family. Interestingly the Y shops in Kolkata still have a section of X 19. X- JALAJOGA Y- MONGINIS 20. Id X Japanese electronics firm Panasonic announced on 12 March 2014 to pay its employees a X premium to workers who are working in China. The move was announced as part of Panasonic's pay negotiations. Panasonic became the first firm to explicitly pay more due to China's ______ problems. The problem is very common in prosperous urban areas such as Beijing. 21. POLLUTION PREMIUM 22. X is a technique used in football ,field hockey or basketball, in which a player rolls or throws the ball through an opponent's legs. This can be while passing to another player, shooting or occasionally carry on and retrieve it themselves. It is also known as "Panna,iShibobo",SALAD In other parts of the world. 23. NUTMEG 24. The Leidenfrost effect is a phenomenon in which a liquid, in near contact with a mass significantly hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces an insulating vapor layer keeping that liquid from boiling rapidly. This is most commonly seen when cooking; one sprinkles drops of water in a pan to gauge its temperature: if the pan's temperature is at or above the Leidenfrost point, the water skitters across the pan and takes longer to evaporate than in a pan below the temperature of the Leidenfrost point. What is so unique about this phenomenon? 25. DEFIES GRAVITY 26. X Inc., based in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA, provides technology and services.This Entity has its network in 32 countries. Some of the famous places having the entity are are : ->Times Square ,NYC ->Bude Beach,UK ->Sedona,Arizona ->Andy Warhol Gravesite Id X 27. EARTHCAM 28. What is X ? 1. X 2. X Tavern 3. X Ming Room 4. X Other Room 29. TRINCAS 30. ID X X is a football founded in 1909 by seventeen football players. It has won German football championships, DFB-Pokals, DFL- Supercups, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, and one Intercontinental Cup. Their Cup Winners' Cup win in 1966 made them the first German club to win a European title. Xs motto is "Echte Liebe" (English: "True Love"). the clubs nickname die Schwarzgelben holds a long-standing rivalry with Ruhr neighbours Schalke, known as the Revierderby 31. BORUSSIA DORTMUND 32. Id X,Y,Z and connect Born in Iran in 1861, Arathoon X was a member of the Armenian community in Calcutta, which is believed to have spent a huge amount of money in shaping the growth of the city. X was a shareholder and the first managing director of X _____ Ltd. He founded the Grand hotel in Calcutta and the Everest hotel in Darjeeling Y: A chain of stores owned by RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group.Their Kolkata outlet was inaugurated in 2000.It does not exist now Z: a fast-casual bakery and cafe chain headquartered in Boston,Massachusetts founded in 1978.The meaning of the name of the chain in English is Place of good Bread 33. X-STEPHEN (STEPHEN COURT) Y- MUSIC WORLD Z- AU BON PAIN 34. Name the product 35. OCCULUS RIFT 36. Connect 37. TYPES OF HOUNDS Pharaoh Hound Afghan Hound Ibizan Hound Otter Hound Bassett Hound Blood Hound 38. The dish ______ was introduced at the famous Buhari Hotel restaurant in Chennai . Here are some of the speculated theories regarding the naming of the dish: A source claims that northern Indian army soldiers frequented a military canteen in Chennai. As most of the soldiers could not read the Tamil Menu, they made their choice by citing the number of the dish on the menu.They'd simply ask for number X An urban legend suggests that the dish was invented by a culinary-minded electronics engineer whose work involved designing batteries from Terbium, an element whose atomic number is X. Another account claims that the creator of the dish required chillies from Doddabetta, the highest mountain in Tamil Nadu. However, a pack of vicious dogs were known to roam the Doddabetta. The chef sent many men to the Doddabetta to obtain the chillies yet no one returned, unable to climb the treacherous mountainside, or falling prey to the pack of dogs. Eventually, the (X+1)th man went and was able to retrieve the famous chillies. The chef decided to honour the X men who had given their lives for the vital ingredient and named the dish ___________. 39. CHICKEN 65 40. Identify this unusual Sports. It was shown in a very famous movie. 41. BUZKASHI 42. Put Funda! 43. INVENTIONS BY PROFESSOR SHONKU 44. In 1957, X received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford. He subsequently won a Marshall Scholarship for a Ph.D. (1961) in physics from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Research Fellow at Pembroke College. After Cambridge, X acted as a technical advisor to the United Nations in India, until 1965, when he returned to England, where he founded X Laboratories in London with a staff of four. In that same year, 1965, he officially invented the Y, a form of electronic filter, although his first U.S. patent was not filed until 1969, four years later. X was a Fellow and past president of the Audio Engineering Society. Id X 45. X- RAY DOLBY Y-DOLBY SOUND SYSTEMS 46. This is a part of a monologue that was performed by X on International Womens day. It is called Just Another Rant In the beginning God made man. God made man in his own image. And then that's was it. 'Man'kind, hu'man'ity, wo'man. Man, man, man. What chance in Hell did we ever have? We were sidelined from the Big Bang. You remember Draupadi? Draupadi married off to all five Pandavas. She garlanded only Arjun But they told her you got to marry all of us. Five husbands! That can't be fun. God know I have enough trouble with one. Who has written/perfomed the monologue? 47. KALKI KOELCHIN 48. The Method of loci also called X is a mnemonic device introduced in ancient Roman and Greek rhetorical treatises. According to myth, the Greek poet Simonides of Ceos invented the technique after attending a banquet gone wrong. Simonides stepped outside to meet with two young men. But when he arrived outside, the young men were not there and the hall was collapsing behind him. Though his fellow banqueters were too badly crushed by the collapse for their remains to be identified, Simonides was supposedly able to put a name with each body based on where they had been sitting in the hall. What is X ? 49. THE MEMORY PALACE 50. An US Bank Article titled X is based on an interview of Frank Abagnale and his fraud prevention programs. The title may have been derived from Frank Abagnales crime spree and then for the past 31 years, his involvement with 65% of Americas Fortune 500 companies. The phrase X had also attained some popularity in India in the recent past . 51. Connect/ How are these 3 an unit? The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway The Nilgiri Mountain Railway The KalkaShimla Railway 52. UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE 53. Connect 54. BRIDGE OVER RIVER GANGA 55. Shrivardhan Trivedi is a theatre actor from Delhi,with a distinctive baritone voice, has acted in serials such as Bhaanwar,Rajdhani,Jasoos Vijay etc. He has also acted in Films like Swaraj ,Shadow in the Dark, karvaan and also hosted TV shows. In 2010 he made it to the India book of Records for anchoring a show in a certain genre for the longest period of time. What is his most famous stint/name the TV show? 56. SANSANI 57. Little Eye Labs ,a Bangalore based startup was founded in 2013. The company released its official version of Little Eye for Android in early April. Its tools help developers measure, analyze and optimize their apps performance. In January 2014,this company became the first or the only company to achieve a feat. What happened in January 2014? 58. THE ONLY INDIAN COMPANY TO BE ACQUIRED BY FACEBOOK 59. Bal X - Childhood Stories of X, a comic book brought out by Rannade Prakashan and Blue Snail Animation, tells stories of bravery and "fearlessness" from X's childhood. The comic book, that has no known author, is a catalogue of larger-than-life deeds for his family, friends and society in general. The 45- page comic book shows X rescuing a drowning boy, swimming in crocodile infested waters, serving tea and food to soldiers going to war in 1962, taking on school bullies, helping his father sell tea, acting in theatre, strategising his team's kabaddi win and saving a trapped bird. Who is X? 60. NARENDRA MODI 61. What event occurred for the first time in the Indian Innings Bigger pic in the next slide 62. The Sachin Tendulkar Runout was the first instance of the 3rd umpire decision 63. X was a file hosting and cloud storage service offered by Microsoft. In 2011 a trademark-infringement lawsuit was filed against the company by Rupert Murdoch's British Sky Broadcasting Group, which also offers Internet storage. As a result of which Microsoft rebranded X as Y keeping the user interface of the Y site virtually identical to that of the old X site. Y was launched on February 19 ,2014 Id X and Y 64. X-SKYDRIVE Y- ONEDRIVE 65. CADBURY WORLD CUP ONASRISHTI Argentine Magic Brazilian Samba English Free Kick French Header German Blitzkrieg Italian Defence Spanish Tiki Taka Uruguayan Comeback 66. Scene from which game? 67. DISCWORLD. (Based on Pratchetts books) 68. X is a novel by Australian author Markus Zusak. Narrated by Death, the book is set in Nazi Germany, a place and time when the narrator notes he was extremely busy. It describes a young girl's relationship with her foster parents, the other residents of their neighborhood, and a young Jewish man who hides in her home during the escalation of World War II. First published in 2005, the book has won numerous awards and was listed on The New York Times Best Seller list for over 230 weeks. Name the novel? 69. THE BOOK THIEF 70. Who covering whom? 71. SOMLATA covering CELINE DIONS A New day has come 72. http://24hoursofhappy.com/ is the website for a song by an American singer- songwriter, rapper, record producer, musician, and fashion designer Pharrell Williams . Why is the website/song unique? 73. WORLDS ONLY 24 HOUR MUSIC VIDEO 74. This video is a tribute to the works of X. Identify X and also identify the lyricist Y 75. X- RAJA RAVI VERMA Y- KAPIL SIBBAL 76. This 12 letter English word is derived from the adjective To form or gather into a mass or whole It comes from the the LATIN word for together and for ball [glomus] What is the good word? 77. CONGLOMERATE 78. X is an annual award ceremony honoring remarkable individuals from the world of sports along with the greatest sporting achievements throughout the year. It was established in 1999 by founding patrons Daimler and Richemont and is supported by its global partners Mercedes- Benz and IWC Schaffhausen. The first gala was held on May 25, 2000 in Monte Carlo. Id X 79. LAUREAS SPORT AWARDS