This document contains the questions and answers for a quiz competition. It includes 20 total questions, with some marked as starred questions that could be used to break ties. The questions cover a wide range of topics including movies, songs, historical figures, novels, and companies. For each question, the document provides the answer or identifies the requested person, place, thing, etc. The questions require knowledge from fields such as history, literature, pop culture, and current events.
4. Obligatory Rules Slide
• 20 Questions
• Starred questions are indicated. Will be used to break ties.
• On the paper, mention Team Name along with Names, Roll Numbers
and Contact no. of team members.
• All the best! Let's Begin.
5. Shown is the TripAdvisor listing for the Republic of Zubrowska,
oddly, it is listed in another country, and has only one hotel
listed. Which Hotel?
Q1
*
7. ID
• X is a song, initially composed for the 1994 Tamil film Kadhalan with vocals by
vocals by Suresh Peters, Shahul Hameed and the composer of the song.
• The song was later dubbed into Hindi and Telugu
• In 2017, the Composer recreated the song for MTV unplugged, with
croudsourced lyrics. It featured lyrics like
" If Hilary Clinton loses, [Line from chorus],
If Donald Trump becomes president, [Line from chorus],
If 500 rupees note becomes worthless, [Line from chorus]
If 100 rupees note becomes worthless, [Line from chorus]"
• In 2018, it was remade again for a movie with Shahid Kapoor and Kiara Advani by
another musician.
• Which song? Which musician is behind the 2018 remake (much to my dismay)?
Q2
9. ID
• In 1977, India’s then foreign minister addressed the UN General
assembly and became the first in History to deliver a UN address in
Hindi.
• ID the person who was in the news again this year.
Q3
13. ID
• Shown in the image from left to right
are Justices Kurian Joseph, Jasti
Chelameshwar, X and MB Lokur.
• ID X, What Position Does he currently
hold?
Q5
17. This is the "You 2" typeface, a font created for
whch famous marketing campaign?
Q7
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19. fitb
• The region was originally called Sapta Sindhu, the Vedic land of the
seven rivers flowing into the ocean. The Sanskrit name for the region,
as mentioned in the Ramayana and Mahabharata for example, was
Panchanada which means "Land of the Five Rivers", and was
translated to Persian as ______ after the Muslim conquests. The word
is a compound of the Persian words for "five" and "waters".
• The name of which place?
Q8
21. ID
• Paridayda is an Old Iranian and Assyrian word referring to the walls
enclosing the great Gardens in Persia.
• It is said that a certain English word is derived from this because
Greek soldiers in Persia misunderstood the meaning of the word
Paridayda
• Which English word?
Q9
*
23. ID X and Y
• Baby Driver is a 2017 action film written and directed by Edgar Wright. The
plot follows Baby (Ansel Elgort), a music lover who is coerced to work as a
getaway driver for kingpin Doc (Kevin Spacey).
• Baby, after traumatic childhood incident, spends most of his youth stealing
cars, and gets stuck working for Doc to pay off a debt incurred when he
steals one of Doc's cars.
• In the movie, Baby has a wide collection of X's and Y's, sporting them in
different scenes.
• According to director Edgar Wright, these are stolen, Wright Said "If he has
been stealing cars since he was 12, the main thing he would have
inherited from these stolen cars are people's Xs and Ys."
• What are X and Y, commonly found in cars?
Q10
25. Which Company?
• Pictured alongside is "The robotic
Gluteus Maximus" as it is called
• It was made and is used by a certain
world famous Korean company to
test their products
• Which company? Which products?
Q11
*
27. Where have you heard her?
• Shown alongside is the google biography
of a n American voiceover artist. Although
she has not achieved great fame in her
vocal career, her voice is heard everyday
by many across the globe?
• Where has her voice been heard? Bonus
points for her name.
Q12
29. Which Novel? #knowyourQM
• The opening chapter of the novel was originally published in New World
Writing as _____-18 in 1955, but Heller's agent, Candida Donadio,
requested that he change the title of the novel, so it would not be
confused with another recently published World War II novel, Leon Uris's
Mila 18. The number18 has special meaning in Judaism (it means Alive in
Gematria; see Chai) and was relevant to early drafts of the novel which had
a somewhat greater Jewish emphasis.
• The title _____-11 was suggested, with the duplicated 1 paralleling the
repetition found in a number of character exchanges in the novel, but
because of the release of the 1960 movie Ocean's Eleven, this was
also rejected. _____-17 was rejected so as not to be confused with the
World War II film Stalag 17, as was _____-14, apparently because the
publisher did not feel that 14 was a "funny number." Eventually, the
title came to be _____-__
Q13
31. Which site?
• The site was threatened in January 2014, when Bilawal Bhutto
Zardari of the Pakistan People's Party chose the site for The Sindh
Festival's inauguration ceremony. This would have exposed the site
to mechanical operations, including excavation and drilling. Farzand
Masih, head of the Department of Archaeology at Punjab University
warned that such activity was banned under the Antiquity Act, saying
"You cannot even hammer a nail at the site." On 31 January 2014, a
case was filed in the Sindh High Court to bar the Sindh government
from continuing with the event
• The PPP continued with the event anyway causing irreparable
damage.
Q14
*
33. ID
• X (meaning bundle) is a bound bundle of wooden rods,
sometimes including an axe with its blade emerging. It had
its origin in the Etruscan civilization and was passed on to
ancient Rome, where it symbolized a magistrate's power and
jurisdiction.
• During the first half of the 20th century both the X and Y
(each symbol having its own unique ancient religious and
mythological associations) became heavily identified with
the authoritarian political movements of two men in Europe.
During this period the Y became deeply stigmatized, but the
X did not undergo a similar process
• X is the origin for the name of a political ideology most
commonly associated by the two aforementioned European
leaders. Which ideology? Bonus points if you can name X.
Q15
37. Real life versions of who? It is said that the boy
never forgave his father for using his name.
Q17
39. Funda
• In September 2016, someone's address changed to 7 Lok Kalyan
Marg.
• Whose address? What was it formally?
Q18
41. ID the company
• The company was incorporated on 29 December 1945 in Amalner,
Maharashtra by Mohamed ______ as 'Western India Vegetable Products
Limited', . It was initially set up as a manufacturer of vegetable and refined
oils in Amalner, Maharashtra, India under the trade names of Kisan,
Sunflower, and Camel.
• In 1966, his son took over and led the company to great success, in the 80s,
the name changed to _ _ _ _ _ Products.
• In the 80s, they entered the sector for which they are best known and
changed the name to _ _ _ _ _ Ltd
• Perhaps a legacy of one of their earliest successful products, sunflower oil,
was seen in their logo until recently, when the son retired.
Q19
43. ID X
• X is a German and German-American family, descended from Johann
Philipp X (1667–1707) from Kallstadt in the then-Electoral Palatinate, Holy
Roman Empire, today in modern Germany.
• Several family members moved to and formed cadet branches in the
United States in the 19th century, among them Johann Heinrich Heinz, a
son of Charlotte Louisa X, who became the father of Henry J. Heinz, the
founder of the Heinz Tomato Ketchup company
• Friedrich X was one of six children of a winegrower and a second cousin of
Henry J. Heinz, the founder of Heinz. The most notable branch of the family
is descended from him. He moved to the States in 1885 and his son
Fredrick established a very successful Real Estate Business.
• Frederick's son is the most famous member of the Family ever.
Q20
46. Shown is the TripAdvisor listing for the Republic of Zubrowska,
oddly, it is listed in another country, and has only one hotel
listed. Which Hotel?
Q1
*
48. ID
• X is a song, initially composed for the 1994 Tamil film Kadhalan with vocals by
vocals by Suresh Peters, Shahul Hameed and the composer of the song.
• The song was later dubbed into Hindi and Telugu
• In 2017, the Composer recreated the song for MTV unplugged, with
croudsourced lyrics. It featured lyrics like
" If Hilary Clinton loses, [Line from chorus],
If Donald Trump becomes president, [Line from chorus],
If 500 rupees note becomes worthless, [Line from chorus]
If 100 rupees note becomes worthless, [Line from chorus]"
• In 2018, it was remade again for a movie with Shahid Kapoor and Kiara Advani by
another musician.
• Which song? Which musician is behind the 2018 remake (much to my dismay)?
Q2
50. ID
• In 1977, India’s then foreign minister addressed the UN General
assembly and became the first in History to deliver a UN address in
Hindi.
• ID the person who was in the news again this year.
Q3
54. ID
• Shown in the image from left to right
are Justices Kurian Joseph, Jasti
Chelameshwar, X and MB Lokur.
• ID X, What Position Does he currently
hold?
Q5
60. fitb
• The region was originally called Sapta Sindhu, the Vedic land of the
seven rivers flowing into the ocean. The Sanskrit name for the region,
as mentioned in the Ramayana and Mahabharata for example, was
Panchanada which means "Land of the Five Rivers", and was
translated to Persian as ______ after the Muslim conquests. The word
is a compound of the Persian words for "five" and "waters".
• The name of which place?
Q8
62. ID
• Paridayda is an Old Iranian and Assyrian word referring to the walls
enclosing the great Gardens in Persia.
• It is said that a certain English word is derived from this because
Greek soldiers in Persia misunderstood the meaning of the word
Paridayda
• Which English word?
Q9
*
64. ID X and Y
• Baby Driver is a 2017 action film written and directed by Edgar Wright. The
plot follows Baby (Ansel Elgort), a music lover who is coerced to work as a
getaway driver for kingpin Doc (Kevin Spacey).
• Baby, after traumatic childhood incident, spends most of his youth stealing
cars, and gets stuck working for Doc to pay off a debt incurred when he
steals one of Doc's cars.
• In the movie, Baby has a wide collection of X's and Y's, sporting them in
different scenes.
• According to director Edgar Wright, these are stolen, Wright Said "If he has
been stealing cars since he was 12, the main thing he would have
inherited from these stolen cars are people's Xs and Ys."
• What are X and Y, commonly found in cars?
Q10
66. Which Company?
• Pictured alongside is "The robotic
Gluteus Maximus" as it is called
• It was made and is used by a certain
world famous Korean company to
test their products
• Which company? Which products?
Q11
*
68. Where have you heard her?
• Shown alongside is the google biography
of a n American voiceover artist. Although
she has not achieved great fame in her
vocal career, her voice is heard everyday
by many across the globe?
• Where has her voice been heard? Bonus
points for her name.
Q12
70. Which Novel? #knowyourQM
• The opening chapter of the novel was originally published in New World
Writing as _____-18 in 1955, but Heller's agent, Candida Donadio,
requested that he change the title of the novel, so it would not be
confused with another recently published World War II novel, Leon Uris's
Mila 18. The number18 has special meaning in Judaism (it means Alive in
Gematria; see Chai) and was relevant to early drafts of the novel which had
a somewhat greater Jewish emphasis.
• The title _____-11 was suggested, with the duplicated 1 paralleling the
repetition found in a number of character exchanges in the novel, but
because of the release of the 1960 movie Ocean's Eleven, this was
also rejected. _____-17 was rejected so as not to be confused with the
World War II film Stalag 17, as was _____-14, apparently because the
publisher did not feel that 14 was a "funny number." Eventually, the
title came to be _____-__
Q13
72. Which site?
• The site was threatened in January 2014, when Bilawal Bhutto
Zardari of the Pakistan People's Party chose the site for The Sindh
Festival's inauguration ceremony. This would have exposed the site
to mechanical operations, including excavation and drilling. Farzand
Masih, head of the Department of Archaeology at Punjab University
warned that such activity was banned under the Antiquity Act, saying
"You cannot even hammer a nail at the site." On 31 January 2014, a
case was filed in the Sindh High Court to bar the Sindh government
from continuing with the event
• The PPP continued with the event anyway causing irreparable
damage.
Q14
*
74. ID
• X (meaning bundle) is a bound bundle of wooden rods,
sometimes including an axe with its blade emerging. It had
its origin in the Etruscan civilization and was passed on to
ancient Rome, where it symbolized a magistrate's power and
jurisdiction.
• During the first half of the 20th century both the X and Y
(each symbol having its own unique ancient religious and
mythological associations) became heavily identified with
the authoritarian political movements of two men in Europe.
During this period the Y became deeply stigmatized, but the
X did not undergo a similar process
• X is the origin for the name of a political ideology most
commonly associated by the two aforementioned European
leaders. Which ideology? Bonus points if you can name X.
Q15
82. ID the company
• The company was incorporated on 29 December 1945 in Amalner,
Maharashtra by Mohamed ______ as 'Western India Vegetable Products
Limited', later abbreviated to 'Wipro'. It was initially set up as a
manufacturer of vegetable and refined oils in Amalner, Maharashtra, India
under the trade names of Kisan, Sunflower, and Camel.
• In 1966, his son took over and led the company to great success, in the 80s,
the name changed to _ _ _ _ _ Products.
• In the 80s, they entered the sector for which they are best known and
changed the name to _ _ _ _ _ Ltd
• Perhaps a legacy of one of their earliest successful products, sunflower oil,
was seen in their logo until recently, when the son retired.
Q19
84. ID X
• X is a German and German-American family, descended from Johann
Philipp X (1667–1707) from Kallstadt in the then-Electoral Palatinate, Holy
Roman Empire, today in modern Germany.
• Several family members moved to and formed cadet branches in the
United States in the 19th century, among them Johann Heinrich Heinz, a
son of Charlotte Louisa X, who became the father of Henry J. Heinz, the
founder of the Heinz Tomato Ketchup company
• Friedrich X was one of six children of a winegrower and a second cousin of
Henry J. Heinz, the founder of Heinz. The most notable branch of the family
is descended from him. He moved to the States in 1885 and his son
Fredrick established a very successful Real Estate Business.
• Frederick's son is the most famous member of the Family ever.
Q20
88. Another Obligatory rules slide
• QM is Gawd
• Infinite Bounce pounce
• 32 questions with two written rounds in between
89. Funda
• Operation Polo was the first named operation carried out by the army
of Independent India, and the second operation overall.
• Listed alongside are the commanders and leaders (from Wikipedia)
• What was the objective/outcome of Operation Polo?
Q1
92. Put Funda
• Shown alongside is a piece of art that has
been viewed by many people across the
country because of where it has been
installed.
• The artist, however paints only part time.
• This was installed in 2009 when the painter
held an important position relating to where
the art is installed.
• Where is it installed? Who is the artist?
Q2
95. Put Funda
• In an editorial titled "X Fundamentalists" (A subversion of a common
descriptor), in the Times of India, Ronjoy Sen writes.
"It is one of the deep ironies of South Asian history that the two
figures crucial to the ideology of religious nationalism in the
subcontinent — Mohammed Ali Jinnah and Vinayak Damodar
Savarkar — were themselves X"
• What, ironically, connects the two leaders?
Q3
101. ID X & Y
• Jesse Owens once reportedly said "X didn’t snub me; it was Y who
snubbed me. The _________ didn’t even send me a telegram."
• While the story of X snubbing Owens by not congratulating him on his
Olympic medal is widely known, it is said that X in fact congratulated
none of the medal winners since he was told it was a breach of
protocol.
• Y on the other hand, invited only White medal winners to personally
congratulate them.
Q5
104. ID the happy couple
• X and Y met while y was a waitress at a Greek restaurant in
Cambridge, and apparently, it was love at first sight.
• Supposedly, he got so mesmerized by Y's beauty that he immediately
wrote a poem about her on a paper napkin and sent it to her along
with a bottle of the best wine.
Q6
107. Put Funda
• 1951-1970
• 1970-1977
• What followed these two images? Where were they used?
• [Hint – In a few months from now, the organisation that used them
will be all ____ on deck]
Q7
110. ID
• In 1937, Nehru had been elected president of the Indian National
Congress for the third time in a row. In reaction to this, an article
titled "Rashtrapati" appeared under the pseudonym Chanakya in a
Calcutta monthly called Modern review. Excerpts follow:
"Men like Jawaharlal, with all their capacity for great and good work, are unsafe in democracy. He calls himself
a democrat and a socialist, and no doubt he does so in all earnestness, but every psychologist knows that the
mind is ultimately a slave to the heart and logic can always be made to fit in with the desires and irrepressible
urges of a person. A little twist and Jawaharlal might turn a dictator
In normal times he would be just an efficient and successful executive, but in this revolutionary epoch,
Caesarism is always at the door, and is it not possible that Jawaharlal might fancy himself as a Caesar?
Let us not spoil that and spoil him by too much adulation and praise. His conceit is already formidable. It must
be checked. We want no Caesars."
• Whose pen-name is Chanakya?
Q8
114. A is known to be tone of the earliest proponents of psychological
warfare. It is said that he ordered his soldiers to drag large objects
behind their horses to create dust storms. The dust storms made the
advancing troops appear to be much larger than they were. He ordered
his soldiers to burn hundreds of extra fires at night, which also made
the armies appear larger.
Although infamous for the brutality of his campaigns A is also
credited with bringing the Silk Road under one cohesive political
environment. This brought communication and trade from Northeast
Asia into Muslim Southwest Asia and Christian Europe, thus expanding
the horizons of all three cultural areas.
115. • B is A's Great-great-great Grandson, if A was the First _____ ____, B
was the Fifth.
• "B : A Vision in a Dream, a Fragment" is the full title of a famous
poem by Samuel Taylor Coelridge. According to Coleridge's preface,
the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium-
influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu, the
summer palace of the B.
• Most modern critics now view it as one of Coleridge's three great
poems, along with The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.
116. • C is a great ruler who established a dynasty after his own name, he
was the last of the great nomadic conquerors of the Eurasian Steppe,
and his empire set the stage for the rise of the more structured and
lasting Gunpowder Empires in the 16th and 17th centuries.
• Through his father, C claimed to be a descendant of Tumanay , a
male-line ancestor he shared in common with A.
• Scholars estimate that C's military campaigns caused the deaths of 17
million people, amounting to about 5% of the world population at the
time. (A would be proud)
• C's name was in the news in India in 2016 and (perhaps due to low
standards for what passes as journalism), remains in the news today.
117. • D, born Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad, was C's Great grandson. And if not
descended from A through C, was definitely descended from A
through his mother who was the grand daughter of Esen Buqa I, who
was the great-great-great grandson of Chaghatai, A's second born
son.
• D established an empire in India and his dyasty derives it's name from
the dynasty of A.
• A building associated with his name has been in the news for years,
due to the controversy surrounding it.
120. Put Funda
• In The Crown S1E6 "Gelignite" journalist Bill Matheson, in an attempt
to persuade the editor of his paper too hold the front page for a story
about rumors of romance between Princess Margaret and a certain
Group Captain Townsend (a divorced man), says "Historically, when
this lot brush up against divorce, you end up with either X or Y"
• X and Y are both important historic events relating to the royal family,
which events is he talking about?
Q9
123. ID
• "The Big Three Killed my Baby" is a 1999 Single by The White Stripes
• The song is about the company of a Preston Tucker, who like Jack and
Meg white was from Detroit.
• The company "Tucker Corporation" only ever produced one model,
the Tucker 48 of which only 51 pieces were produced before the
company shut down.
• The company could not survive the intense competition in the Detroit
Auto Market.
• If Tucker Corporation is the "Baby" in the title, who are "The Big
Three"?
Q10
126. ID X
• Aleiodes ________ is a species of parasitic wasp belonging to the
family Braconidae.
• Adult female wasps inject an egg into a particular type of caterpillar,
where it hatches. The host caterpillar remains alive for a time while
the wasp larva slowly eats its insides.
• The larva causes its host caterpillar to shake and twist in different
ways as it dies, reminding them of X’s dance moves
• X is a famous performed after whom the wasp is named
Q11
129. ID
• Livyatan is an extinct genus of sperm whale containing one species:
Livyatan _________.
• The species is named after a famous author who once, very aptly said
"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great
and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many
there be who have tried it."
• Which author?
Q12
132. ID
• At 12:50 pm, @jack posted "just setting up my _ _ _ _ _(X)"
• X later went on to gain two vowels and become hugely successful
• What (which @jack is a creator of) is being talked about?
Q13
135. ID the gentlemen
• the picture was taken during an Autumn
military maneuver near Krakow in
modern day Poland, in 1906
• One of them was a world leader then
and the other would go on to be one
• A few years later, this picture would be
politically impossible.
Q14
141. Put Funda
• This is a picture of a one rupee note. The collector's gem celebrated
the 100th anniversary of its induction last year.
• In what singular way is it different from all other currency notes in the
country?
Q16
159. ID X and Y
• In 1669 the writings of the famous French mathematician, Blaise Pascal,
were published posthumously., entitled Pensees (Thoughts).
• One of those thoughts, expressed with a smart bit of wordplay, goes
“X’s Y, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been
changed.”
• Had X's Y been shorter, Pascal felt, she would have lacked the dominance
and strength of character which, in the physiognomy of her times (and the
seventeenth century by the way), a large nose symbolized.
• With a shorter Y, great men would not have fallen under her spell, and civil
wars may have been averted or ended differently.
Q17
165. Funda
• The Laws of the Game (LOTG) are the codified rules that define association
football. They are the only rules of association football subscribed to by FIFA.
• Law 14 of the game was added in June 1891 and is credited to Irish Goalkeeper
and businessman William McCrum
• The proposal initially generated much derision and indignation amongst
footballers and the press as the 'Irishman's motion' or the '____ _______' as it
was known, conceded that players might deliberately act unsportingly.This went
against the Victorian idea of the amateur gentleman sportsman.
• Public opinion may have changed after an FA Cup quarter final between Stoke
City and Notts County on 14 February 1891 where an indirect free kick after a
deliberate handball on the goal line did not result in a goal.
• What is Law 14. For Bonus points, how many laws do the LOTG currently
comprise of?
Q19
168. ID
• Shown is the Coat of arms and Symbol of the
Philippine National police.
• In the center, it depicts X, a former king of the
Mactan holding a sword and shield.
• X is considered the first Flipino hero for killing
someone, which is seen as an act of resistance
against colonialism.
• Who did X kill, making a well-known historical
fact about a great achievement technically
incorrect?
• Bonus points for his name.[You should know the
answer if you've been listening to Campus
Radio]
Q20
171. ID
• X's Children is a book written by Edith Sheffer that
reveals the horrifying truths about X's life and
research.
• X is widely revered for pioneering work on a certain
disease and how it manifests in children. A certain
condition is also famously named after X.
• The book reveals that in the course of research, X
participated in the brutal mass murder of children
carried out by the Nazi regime in the name of
eugenics. X is said to have marked out children as
"uneducable" as requested by the governmental
agencies at the time, the children given this label were
then duly culled.
• ID X
Q21
174. ID
• On the Top are ten induviduals named
Krasavietz, Brek, Milkah, Ikar, Joy,
Tungus, Arleekin, Ruslan, Toi and
Murashka
• On the bottom is an unnamed
individual with an implanted Cannula
• By what collective moniker are these
and many other individuals with them
known to us?
Q22
177. Put Funda
• King Musa l of the Malian empire was possibly the richest person in all of history.
• He was a devout Muslim and in 1324, he saw it as his duty to perform Hajj, the
pilgrimage to Mecca.
• Musa’s pilgrimage caravan included 60,000 companions, 12,000 slaves carrying 4
pounds of gold each, and 80 camels laden with 50 to 300 pounds of gold each.
Five hundred of Musa’s servants also rode before him each carrying a 10.5 pound
gold staff. Though Musa had more gold than he could have possibly spent on his
journey, that didn’t stop him from making an effort.
• He gave beggars huge ingots, overpaid at bazaars and tipped with fistfuls of gold
dust. Musa also reportedly ordered a new mosque built for him to pray at every
Friday. In addition, he made formal charitable donations of 20,000 ounces of gold
– 1,250 pounds – each at Cairo, Mecca, and Medina.
• However, he (perhaps unintentionally) caused great disaster in all three cities.
How?
Q23
179. Hyperinflation
• The instantaneous and incalculable influx of gold into Cairo, Mecca,
and Medina caused hyperinflation the likes of which had never been
seen before or since and nearly impoverished all three great cities for
over ten years. Assuming roughly equal distribution of the total gold
load across all those aforementioned camels, Musa made at least
71,000 pounds of gold basically worthless by just plumb giving it away
into climates that considered it scarce and valuable.
180. This is a certain document that is given along with something else, the
artwork in the margins is inspired by why it is given. ID the document,
Bonus for IDing the recipient.
Q24
186. ID
• The person shown alongside was born M. Halparin
on August 25th, 1921.
• He briefly worked for the Canadian Wheat Board
after graduating before deciding to pursue a full-
time career in broadcasting. He moved to Toronto in
1946 and found a job with radio station CHUM,
where management changed his name to make it
more Show-Biz.
• He was widely known as the long-running host of
Let's Make a Deal
• We know him because of a letter written by
statistician Steve Selvin to Scientific American in
1975. Selvin supposedly chose the name because of
similarity to one of the games on Lets Make a Deal
Q26
197. No of Judges in SC as allowed by the
constitution
198. Which Term
• French demographer, anthropologist and historian Alfred Sauvy, in an
article published in the French magazine L'Observateur, August 14,
1952, coined the term XY, referring to countries that were unaligned
with either the Communist Soviet bloc or the Capitalist NATO bloc
during the Cold War. His usage was a reference to the X Estate, the
commoners of France who, before and during the French Revolution,
opposed the clergy and nobles.
• What term which means something different today?
Q30
201. ID
• On 24th March 2004, something was stolen from the vault of Visva
Bharati University. The crime remains unsolved.
• On 7th February 2017, a New Delhi residence was burgled. The stolen
object was however recovered soon after and the culprits were
nabbed.
• In both cases, what was stolen? Who were the original owners?
Q31
204. ID the company
• During the second World War, a certain group of people in
Czechoslovakia, took apart something they owned (made by a
particular company) and hid the parts among household objects so
that they would not be taken away to help the German War Effort
• These parts became symbols of hope and resistance, and recently, the
company took out an ad campaign to honor this movement.
• Which company?
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