2. Prelims
• 25 questions in the prelims
• +1 for each correct answer
• No negative marking
• Top 6 teams qualify for the finals
• In case of a tie, all tied teams qualify for the finals
3. Q.1.
• FBI like all other secret organizations need hackers to carry out their cyber
shizz. However, while they always have a demand for good hackers they are
rarely able to find any due to a rule that goes very well with FBI.
The Hackers should not have done this thing in last 3 years.
What?
4. Q.2.
• X (September 9, 1941 – c. October 12, 2011) was an American computer
scientist. He is most well known for creating the Y programming language
and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system.
Both Y and UNIX are currently used in almost all of the technology we see
around today.
X worked with Bell Labs before inventing Y and died just a few days after
Steve Jobs’ death thus not gathering a lot of media attention. To which the
computer historian Paul E Ceruzzi wrote
5. • X was under the radar. His name was not a household name at all, but... if
you had a microscope and could look in a computer, you'd see his work
everywhere inside.
X and Y?
6. Q.3.
• While people in other countries still fail to match demand and supply. To
cope up with it, Singapore registers every citizen above the age of 21 as
worthy of X. Although it’s a personal choice in most parts of the world, it
isn’t in Singapore. If one does not wish to take part in X they will be deemed
at the very last in order to take benefit of X.
Hint: People while purchasing an iphone might have gone through this pain
;)
7. Q.4.
• During 1943, in the Fatebenefretali Hospital in Rome, the cases of Syndrome
K had risen very rapidly and sprung up all of a sudden.
Doctors Vittorio Sacerdoti and Giovanni Borromeo were the primary
caretakers of the patients of Syndrome K. It was widely believed that anyone
in contact with a patient of Syndrome K would catch it.
This disease resulted in a minus death count of 20 and the hospital was
awarded with numerous humanitarian awards later for their efforts to save
the patients. Hint: K stands for Kesselring/Kappler. Put Funda.
8. Q.5.
• BRAC is trying to scale up duck farming to create a more resilient livelihood
for people in the Haors, where previously ducks were raised only on a small
scale. The organization carefully selects people—mostly women—to receive
training in duck raising and an interest-free loan of 100,000 taka (about
$1,200). – The Atlantic, Jul 13 2019.
BRAC: Building Resources Across Communities
• Why has been there a rise in duck farming in Bangladesh?
9. Q.6.
• In a recent interview with Fortune, the icon shares his straightforward investing
strategy, which is to avoid it and to keep his distance from finance altogether.
• “I do not invest. I don’t do that stuff,” X tells Fortune. “I didn’t want to be near
money, because it could corrupt your values.”.
• His disdain for money is evident since when his brainchild went public he offered
$10 million to his early employees while his key partner Y refused to do so. Today
X’s net worth is $140 million which is very meagre as compared to would have been
of Y today. Identify X.
10. Q.7.
• Over the last several years of his life, Sinatra was hospitalized for heart and
breathing problems, pneumonia, high blood pressure, and bladder cancer. He
had also been diagnosed with dementia.
• The night Sinatra died (14 May 1998) The west coast feed was airing at the
precise time an ambulance was racing to Sinatra's home to pick him up and
spirit him to Cedars-Sinai Hospital. Traffic on the highways was therefore
quite light, and the ambulance was able to pick up Sinatra and arrive at
Cedars-Sinai in record time. He arrived at the hospital around 9 p.m.
11. Q.7.
• Sinatra did not survive the heart attack, but he was still able to reach the
hospital in record time due to what other event going on at that time on that
day?
12. Q.8.
• For years now, the frustrated citizens of modern X have struggled with
clogged traffic as they await the construction of a new subway line through
the heart of the city, the Metro C.
• But instead of futuristic tunneling and construction, all they have seen since
2006 are shifting archaeological excavations, cordoned off with "Metro C-
Archeological Investigation" banners that pop up monthly in different areas
of the city.
13. Q.8.
• X has only two other existing Metro lines. The Metro B was built in 1955.
The Metro A opened in 1980 but took some 20 years to build, the delays
caused by archaeology.
• What is X?
15. Q.10.
• Founder of X was born to an impoverished family of peasants in what
is now North Korea. In 1998, he sent 1001 cows to his hometown in
North Korea as a repayment 1000 times over for a cow that he stole in
the early 1930s to afford his train ticket to Seoul and escape from
poverty.
• He left his family 4 times before the age of 18 and started his
entrepreneurial journey as a rice merchant.
• Identify X
16. Q.11.
• Johann Philipp Gustav von Jolly (26 September 1809 – 24 December
1884) was a German physicist and mathematician.
• One of his students at the University of Munich was X, whom he advised in
1878 not to go into physics, saying, "in this field, almost everything is already
discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes." Planck
replied that he didn't wish to discover new things, only to understand the
known fundamentals of the field.
• X went on to win the Noble Prize. Identify X.
17. Q.12.
• Gary Gygax joined the Marines, but after being diagnosed with walking pneumonia, he
received a medical discharge and moved back home with his mother. From there, he
commuted to a job as a shipping clerk with Kemper Insurance Co. in Chicago. Shortly after
his return, a friend introduced him to Avalon Hill's new wargame Gettysburg. Gygax was soon
obsessed with the game, often playing marathon sessions once or more a week. It was also
from Avalon Hill that he ordered the first blank hex mapping sheets available, which he then
employed to design his own games.
• Gary Gygax's wife was convinced he was having an affair so she followed him to a dimly lit
basement and burst into the room only to find him and his friends hunched over hand drawn
maps. She discovered Gary building X.
18. Q.13.
• Alvin (DSV-2) is a crewed deep-ocean research submersible owned by the
United States Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution.
• The submersible has made more than 5,000 dives, carrying two scientists and
a pilot, to observe the lifeforms that must cope with super-pressures and
move about in total darkness. Alvin has been featured in nearly 2,000
scientific research papers.
• What its claim to fame?
20. Q.14.
• This image is known as Secessio Plebis and was a common phenomenon in
Rome. What exactly happens in a Secessio Plebis?
21. Q.15.
• In 2011, a team of scientists launched the X Biodiversity Project to find out. These
scientists were from the biology department of North Carolina State University
(NC State) and the Nature Research Center (NRC) at the North Carolina Museum
of Natural Sciences. “We're interested in helping people understand and appreciate
the microscopic species with which we share our daily lives,” says team member Dr.
Holly Menninger, an entomologist and NC State’s director of public science. It’s a
Jungle in There! she said.
• The research team discovered that X are very diverse habitats! In total, they
discovered 2,368 different species. More than half of those may be new to science.
“The X reminded me of rain forests,” wrote Dr. Rob Dunn, a biologist at NC State
and the project’s leader. What is X?
22. Q.16.
• "Hey wassup! This is Liz. Sorry I'm away from the ___. For a hotline to
Philip, press one. For Charles, press two. And for the corgis, press three.“
• Put funda
23. Q.17.
• In 2005, a guy named Doug Heckman did X for Pitstop(an antivirus
company). He e-mailed the company at a certain address hoping it would
send him a check for $1,000. He did, and the company delivered. The Doug
Heckmans of this world are rare, and the cash prizes hidden in X are rarer
still.
• “Unconscionable” is a term commonly used in the legal world to avoid
repercussions of not doing X.
What is X?
24. Q.18.
• Aldrich Ames was a former FBI employee who was charged for espionage in
1985. This made FBI aware of more possible moles within the organization
and figured out that another 3 moles had been ousted who were working for
KGB. These 3 moles were named by X in a secret report.
• In 1987, FBI appointed X as the head of the committee which was supposed
to find the person who took the names of the 3 KGB moles. Meaning, FBI
appointed X to find X. Which led to a series of espionage activities being
done by X from 1987 until he was caught in 2001. Who is X?
25. Q.19.
• In 1825 painter X received a letter which read that his wife was sick. The day
after that a new one said that she was dead. When 2 days later he went to his
wife, he discovered that she was already buried. Pissed off for the slowness
of communications, he invented the Y.
• He had painted a number of presidents of his country. Some of his other
famous paintings are on next slide. Identify X/Y
28. Q.21.
• "Whipping Tom" or "Harby" was the nickname given to two sexual
attackers in London and the nearby village of Hackney. Both would attack
women walking alone.
• He would approach unaccompanied women in alleys and courtyards and
bend them over his knee and lift their dress. The inability of the authorities
to apprehend the offender caused complaints about the ineffectiveness of
London's constabulary, and prompted vigilante patrols in the affected areas
29. Q.21.
• While performing his act he said a word X which is very close to what we
know it as currently. What is X?
30. Q.22.
• Car rubber tires are naturally white. It wasn't until 1912 that companies
started mixing carbon chemicals with the rubber to make black tires. This
process is not an aesthetic change, but a structural one, making the tires
stronger and durable.
• However, until 1912 when the tyres were white a certain “Bibendum”
showed the initial color of tyres which continues to this day. How do we
better know this depiction as?
31. Q.23.
• Why one cannot wear the number 99 in the National Hockey League?
33. Q.25.
• A 2019 Union College study found that doing X in college lowered a
student's GPA by 0.25 points, but also increased their future income by
36%.
• Approximately 80% of the top executives of Fortune 500 companies have
done this. 76% of current United States Senators and Congressmen have
done this. 100 of 158 cabinet members since 1900 have done this. 40 of 47
Supreme Court Justices since 1910 have done this. What is X?
35. Q.1.
• FBI like all other secret organizations need hackers to carry out their cyber
shizz. However, while they always have a demand for good hackers they are
rarely able to find any due to a rule that goes very well with FBI.
The Hackers should not have done this thing in last 3 years.
What?
37. Q.2.
• X (September 9, 1941 – c. October 12, 2011) was an American computer
scientist. He is most well known for creating the Y programming language
and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system.
Both Y and UNIX are currently used in almost all of the technology we see
around today.
X worked with Bell Labs before inventing Y and died just a few days after
Steve Jobs’ death thus not gathering a lot of media attention. To which the
computer historian Paul E Ceruzzi wrote
38. • X was under the radar. His name was not a household name at all, but... if
you had a microscope and could look in a computer, you'd see his work
everywhere inside.
X and Y?
40. Q.3.
• While people in other countries still fail to match demand and supply. To
cope up with it, Singapore registers every citizen above the age of 21 as
worthy of X. Although it’s a personal choice in most parts of the world, it
isn’t in Singapore. If one does not wish to take part in X they will be deemed
at the very last in order to take benefit of X.
Hint: People while purchasing an iphone might have gone through this pain
;)
42. Q.4.
• During 1943, in the Fatebenefretali Hospital in Rome, the cases of Syndrome
K had risen very rapidly and sprung up all of a sudden.
Doctors Vittorio Sacerdoti and Giovanni Borromeo were the primary
caretakers of the patients of Syndrome K. It was widely believed that anyone
in contact with a patient of Syndrome K would catch it.
This disease resulted in a minus death count of 20 and the hospital was
awarded with numerous humanitarian awards later for their efforts to save
the patients. Hint: K stands for Kesselring/Kappler. Put Funda.
44. Q.5.
• BRAC is trying to scale up duck farming to create a more resilient livelihood
for people in the Haors, where previously ducks were raised only on a small
scale. The organization carefully selects people—mostly women—to receive
training in duck raising and an interest-free loan of 100,000 taka (about
$1,200). – The Atlantic, Jul 13 2019.
BRAC: Building Resources Across Communities
• Why has been there a rise in duck farming in Bangladesh?
45. Answer
• As they can float during the omnipresent floods of Bangladesh as compared
to chicken who cannot
46. Q.6.
• In a recent interview with Fortune, the icon shares his straightforward investing
strategy, which is to avoid it and to keep his distance from finance altogether.
• “I do not invest. I don’t do that stuff,” X tells Fortune. “I didn’t want to be near
money, because it could corrupt your values.”.
• His disdain for money is evident since when his brainchild went public he offered
$10 million to his early employees while his key partner Y refused to do so. Today
X’s net worth is $140 million which is very meagre as compared to would have been
of Y today. Identify X.
48. Q.7.
• Over the last several years of his life, Sinatra was hospitalized for heart and
breathing problems, pneumonia, high blood pressure, and bladder cancer. He
had also been diagnosed with dementia.
• The night Sinatra died (14 May 1998) The west coast feed was airing at the
precise time an ambulance was racing to Sinatra's home to pick him up and
spirit him to Cedars-Sinai Hospital. Traffic on the highways was therefore
quite light, and the ambulance was able to pick up Sinatra and arrive at
Cedars-Sinai in record time. He arrived at the hospital around 9 p.m.
49. Q.7.
• Sinatra did not survive the heart attack, but he was still able to reach the
hospital in record time due to what other event going on at that time on that
day?
51. Q.8.
• For years now, the frustrated citizens of modern X have struggled with
clogged traffic as they await the construction of a new subway line through
the heart of the city, the Metro C.
• But instead of futuristic tunneling and construction, all they have seen since
2006 are shifting archaeological excavations, cordoned off with "Metro C-
Archeological Investigation" banners that pop up monthly in different areas
of the city.
52. Q.8.
• X has only two other existing Metro lines. The Metro B was built in 1955.
The Metro A opened in 1980 but took some 20 years to build, the delays
caused by archaeology.
• What is X?
56. Q.10.
• Founder of X was born to an impoverished family of peasants in what is
now North Korea. In 1998, he sent 1001 cows to his hometown in North
Korea as a repayment 1000 times over for a cow that he stole in the early
1930s to afford his train ticket to Seoul and escape from poverty.
• He left his family 4 times before the age of 18 and started his entrepreneurial
journey as a rice merchant.
• Identify X
58. Q.11.
• Johann Philipp Gustav von Jolly (26 September 1809 – 24 December
1884) was a German physicist and mathematician.
• One of his students at the University of Munich was X, whom he advised in
1878 not to go into physics, saying, "in this field, almost everything is already
discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes." Planck
replied that he didn't wish to discover new things, only to understand the
known fundamentals of the field.
• X went on to win the Noble Prize. Identify X.
60. Q.12.
• Gary Gygax joined the Marines, but after being diagnosed with walking pneumonia, he
received a medical discharge and moved back home with his mother. From there, he
commuted to a job as a shipping clerk with Kemper Insurance Co. in Chicago. Shortly after
his return, a friend introduced him to Avalon Hill's new wargame Gettysburg. Gygax was soon
obsessed with the game, often playing marathon sessions once or more a week. It was also
from Avalon Hill that he ordered the first blank hex mapping sheets available, which he then
employed to design his own games.
• Gary Gygax's wife was convinced he was having an affair so she followed him to a dimly lit
basement and burst into the room only to find him and his friends hunched over hand drawn
maps. She discovered Gary building X.
62. Q.13.
• Alvin (DSV-2) is a crewed deep-ocean research submersible owned by the
United States Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution.
• The submersible has made more than 5,000 dives, carrying two scientists and
a pilot, to observe the lifeforms that must cope with super-pressures and
move about in total darkness. Alvin has been featured in nearly 2,000
scientific research papers.
• What its claim to fame?
65. Q.14.
• This image is known as Secessio Plebis and was a common phenomenon in
Rome. What exactly happens in a Secessio Plebis?
66. Answer
• When the peasant/citizen class used to leave the city altogether on exile and
thus leading to the elites to fend for themselves against enemies
67. Q.15.
• In 2011, a team of scientists launched the X Biodiversity Project to find out. These
scientists were from the biology department of North Carolina State University
(NC State) and the Nature Research Center (NRC) at the North Carolina Museum
of Natural Sciences. “We're interested in helping people understand and appreciate
the microscopic species with which we share our daily lives,” says team member Dr.
Holly Menninger, an entomologist and NC State’s director of public science. It’s a
Jungle in There! she said.
• The research team discovered that X are very diverse habitats! In total, they
discovered 2,368 different species. More than half of those may be new to science.
“The X reminded me of rain forests,” wrote Dr. Rob Dunn, a biologist at NC State
and the project’s leader. What is X?
69. Q.16.
• "Hey wassup! This is Liz. Sorry I'm away from the ___. For a hotline to
Philip, press one. For Charles, press two. And for the corgis, press three.“
• Put funda
70. Answer
• This was one Queen Elizabeth’s official voicemail set by Prince Harry and
Prince William
71. Q.17.
• In 2005, a guy named Doug Heckman did X for Pitstop(an antivirus
company). He e-mailed the company at a certain address hoping it would
send him a check for $1,000. He did, and the company delivered. The Doug
Heckmans of this world are rare, and the cash prizes hidden in X are rarer
still.
• “Unconscionable” is a term commonly used in the legal world to avoid
repercussions of not doing X.
What is X?
73. Q.18.
• Aldrich Ames was a former FBI employee who was charged for espionage in
1985. This made FBI aware of more possible moles within the organization
and figured out that another 3 moles had been ousted who were working for
KGB. These 3 moles were named by X in a secret report.
• In 1987, FBI appointed X as the head of the committee which was supposed
to find the person who took the names of the 3 KGB moles. Meaning, FBI
appointed X to find X. Which led to a series of espionage activities being
done by X from 1987 until he was caught in 2001. Who is X?
75. Q.19.
• In 1825 painter X received a letter which read that his wife was sick. The day
after that a new one said that she was dead. When 2 days later he went to his
wife, he discovered that she was already buried. Pissed off for the slowness
of communications, he invented the Y.
• He had painted a number of presidents of his country. Some of his other
famous paintings are on next slide. Identify X/Y
79. Answer
• Afroz Shah tweeting about the largest ever beach cleanup ever conducted in
the world. This happened at the Versova beach in Mumbai.
80. Q.21.
• "Whipping Tom" or "Harby" was the nickname given to two sexual
attackers in London and the nearby village of Hackney. Both would attack
women walking alone.
• He would approach unaccompanied women in alleys and courtyards and
bend them over his knee and lift their dress. The inability of the authorities
to apprehend the offender caused complaints about the ineffectiveness of
London's constabulary, and prompted vigilante patrols in the affected areas
81. Q.21.
• While performing his act he said a word X which is very close to what we
know it as currently. What is X?
83. Q.22.
• Car rubber tires are naturally white. It wasn't until 1912 that companies
started mixing carbon chemicals with the rubber to make black tires. This
process is not an aesthetic change, but a structural one, making the tires
stronger and durable.
• However, until 1912 when the tyres were white a certain “Bibendum”
showed the initial color of tyres which continues to this day. How do we
better know this depiction as?
89. Q.25.
• A 2019 Union College study found that doing X in college lowered a
student's GPA by 0.25 points, but also increased their future income by
36%.
• Approximately 80% of the top executives of Fortune 500 companies have
done this. 76% of current United States Senators and Congressmen have
done this. 100 of 158 cabinet members since 1900 have done this. 40 of 47
Supreme Court Justices since 1910 have done this. What is X?
91. Finals
• 6 rounds in the final
• Round 1: Jhande Gaadna
• Round 2: Hookah Bar
• Round 3: Map PORN
• Round 4: Playaa
• Round 5: Pet Pooja
92. Finals
• Each team has to place a bet on each round by ranking the rounds in
descending order of their strength.
• For example: if the round is of your 2nd highest priority pounce scores will
be +40/-40 followed by +10 for direct and pass
• Points will be in multiple of ten: 50,40,30,20,10
• Round 6: Long Visual Connect
97. Q.2.
• The European(not nation) flag is supposed to change in its own every year
till 2063. While going by current scenarios there is no certainty that it will
survive till then or not. Why does it change by itself every year.
99. Answer
• This is the flag of Chernobyl in Ukraine that denotes the decaying matter
due to radioactivity thus the flag’s print will totally erase(after fading away) by
2063
102. Answer
• These are the variants of the Black Bahuinia Flag which denotes the pro
democracy protests of Hong Kong against China. Largely 2019-20.
105. • This is the flag of the state of Perambuco. This flag created a small
controversy in another part of the world from this state as a person was
jailed for carrying this flag. Why?
115. Q.7.
• We all know about Washington Mutual and Silicon Valley Bank collapses
recently. These two are the two biggest bank collapses in history.
• There was also the third biggest bank collapse of Signature Bank after this
infographic was made. Which two banks are fourth and fifth on the
list(erased ones)?
154. Q.19.
• Basketball in 2008 Summer Olympics
• Played in Australian Women Basketball League for Christchurch Sirens,
Otago Gold Rush and Logan Thunder
• Currently coaches Otago Nuggets
• Also has had played International Cricket
160. Pet Puja
• You have been given a food item with ingredients and some information.
• You have to tell which country does the food item originally belong to
163. • Feta is the most famous X cheese, affectionately called 'the princess of
cheeses'. The cheese is made from sheep's milk or a mixture of sheep's and
goat's milk (the latter should not exceed 30%).
• Feta is traditionally produced with non-pasteurized milk, although nowadays
the use of pasteurized milk is also allowed. The cheese is made in large
square or triangle-shaped molds and preserved in wooden barrels or tin
containers filled with brine in order to keep it fresh and to preserve its
acidity.
168. • Ceviche is the national dish of X consisting of slices of raw fish or shellfish that is
spiced with salt, onions, and chili peppers, then marinated in lime juice. Due to the
acidity of lime juice, the texture of the fish changes, as does its color – from pink to
white.
•
The acidic marinade, also known as leche de tigre (lit. tiger's milk) "cooks" the meat
without any heat involved in the process. For ceviche, fresh fish is an imperative, as
fish and shellfish that are not fresh can cause food poisoning. X are used to fresh
ingredients, so the fish will sometimes be prepared for ceviche less than an hour
after being caught.
172. • Bibim means mixed, and bap means cooked rice, so bibimbap is literally mixed rice. The
rice is combined with a variety of ingredients such as sliced beef, namul (sliced
vegetables), soy sauce, gochujang (thick, deep red chili pepper paste), and a raw egg
on top, cooking as it is dispersed through the steaming rice.
•
One of the most popular X dishes besides bulgogi and kimchi, bibimbap is said to
have been invented out of necessity, just like many other national dishes. In X, there
is a tradition that any leftover food from New Year's Eve should not be brought
over into the New Year, so it started the practice of combining different ingredients
with rice in a bowl, and bibimbap was created.
176. • Churrasco is a X barbecue method where juicy pieces, slices, steaks, and chops of
beef, veal, lamb, pork, and chicken are placed on big skewers and grilled over wood
fire. It started in the early 1800s when the immigrants would get together and start a
fire, adding large portions of meat on skewers and slowly grilling the meat.
•
In the restaurants, known as churrascarias, the skewers are paraded across the
restaurant in a flashy manner, and the waiters circulate among the tables in order to
show off the succulent meat to hungry diners. After the customers have chosen
their preferred type of meat, it is sliced off the skewers to the dining plates.
181. • Fondue is X’s national dish, a melting pot of different flavors and aromas,
similar to the country itself–a melting pot of people and different cultures.
Fondue's key ingredient is cheese that is melted over a fire, with a lot of
regional varieties and flavorful additions such as cherry brandy, white wine,
or a sprinkle of nutmeg. It was invented out of necessity, when the alpine
locals and traveling herders relied only on cheese, wine, and bread to get
them through the winter.