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CQC OPEN

• The United States Marine Training is an intensive 12 week workout detailed below. Whats the last and final test on week 11 known as ?• Week 1 : Receiving• Week 2 : In the Barracks• Week 3 : Bayonet Assault Course• Week 4 : Pugil Sticks (Close quarter combat)• Week 5 : MCMAP• Week 6 : Rappelling• Week 7 : Grass Week (Rifle Training)• Week 8 : Firing Week• Week 9 : Confidence Course• Week 10 : Day Movement• Week 11 : …………………??? (A continuous 54 hour challenge)• Week 12 : Emblem Ceremony

QUESTION 1

• Is that your Ride ?

QUESTION 2

S.No The RideThe

Rider

a. K.I.T.T

b. Mystery Machine

c. Hamsa

d. De Lorean DMC-12 with a flux capacitor

e. A Porsche Spyder named “Little Bastard”

f. Hero

g. Chetak

h. Millennium Falcon

• What event is this Economist Headline about ?

QUESTION 3

• Identify this eccentric business tycoon wanted in Belize for questioning and recently arrested in Guatemala and deported to United States

QUESTION 4

• Identify the Advertiser

QUESTION 5

• Logo of which Hockey India League team and also who are the owners ?

QUESTION 6

• OPEC was made of 12 members, but from 2003 to 2004 their membership was increased ? How and Why ?

QUESTION 7

• What was the only thing Dritharastra has seen in his entire life ?

QUESTION 8

• X’s work “De Architectura” is a series of ten books and the only surviving major book on architecture from classical antiquity. In Book 3 pertaining to the design of temples he writes

“ …In truth they are as necessary to the beauty of a building as to that of a well formed human figure, which nature has so fashioned, that in the face, from the chin to the top of the forehead, or to the roots of the hair, is a tenth part of the height of the whole body. From the chin to the crown of the head is an eighth part of the whole height, and from the nape of the neck to the crown of the head the same………..……….The navel is naturally placed in the centre of the human body, and, if in a man lying with his face upward, and his hands and feet extended, from his navel as the centre, a circle be described, it will touch his fingers and toes. ….. For measuring from the feet to the crown of the head, and then across the arms fully extended, we find the latter measure equal to the former; so that lines at right angles to each other, enclosing the figure, will form a square.”

Name him or how has the previous passage been encoded famously ?

QUESTION 9

• Who makes her acting debut in this movie ?

QUESTION 10

• How do we better know a gentleman by the name of Count Orlando Mazzotta holding an Italian passport while travelling in Europe ?

QUESTION 11

• Identify this famous “hunter” from his safari to Africa, where a staggering 11,400 animals were either killed or trapped. Ironically his lasting popular legacy comes from an animal he refused to kill.

QUESTION 12

• What is the name given to this effect ?

QUESTION 13

• The Video is about how to make Steak Tartare. What is its significance ?

QUESTION 14

• This is a rendering of the proposed Zhuhai – Hong Kong Bridge. What is the specific purpose of this design? (sidenote : this was not the winning design)

QUESTION 15

• In the town of Saveh, currently in Iran, Marco Polo during his journey claims to have seen the tombs of Melichior, Casper and Balthasar with their bodies still entire, with hair and beard remaining. How do we collectively know them as ?

QUESTION 16

• Where are you likely to find these living root bridges made out of roots of trees ?

QUESTION 17

• In Biological sciences what is the opposite of extinct i.e. the word used to refer to a species/taxa that is surviving or still alive?

QUESTION 18

• Movie Poster for which movie ?

QUESTION 19

• How do you get those Scallywags to stop rhyming ? ( Hint : Its about a fruit which will stop a disease common among sailors )

QUESTION 20

• What is this photographed for the first time by Enzo di Fabrizio and colleagues sometime late last year ?

QUESTION 21

• Name the non profit organisation with this logo and the tagline “It takes just 6 gms of Gold to lift the worth of a nation”

QUESTION 22

• Edgar Mitchell : Javelin :: ___________ : Golf ?

QUESTION 23

• A oft quoted apocryphal tale is “this” originated from the name United States (more specifically US) and morphed into its present form. But a more likely tale is that it originated from this impressa of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, which was then was featured on the Spanish “Pieces of eight”

QUESTION 24

• FITB

QUESTION 25

AUDIENCE QUESTIONS

• What would the resultant number be if you count the number of cricket chirps in a 15 second span and added 37 to the number ?

QUESTION 6

• The Air Temperature in degrees farenheit

ANSWER

Answers

CQC OPEN

• The United States Marine Training is an intensive 12 week workout detailed below. Whats the last and final test on week 11 known as ?• Week 1 : Receiving• Week 2 : In the Barracks• Week 3 : Bayonet Assault Course• Week 4 : Pugil Sticks (Close quarter combat)• Week 5 : MCMAP• Week 6 : Rappelling• Week 7 : Grass Week (Rifle Training)• Week 8 : Firing Week• Week 9 : Confidence Course• Week 10 : Day Movement• Week 11 : …………………??? (A continuous 54 hour challenge)• Week 12 : Emblem Ceremony

QUESTION 1

• The Crucible ! !

ANSWER

• Is that your Ride ?

QUESTION 2

S.No The RideThe

Rider

a. K.I.T.T

b. Mystery Machine

c. Hamsa

d. De Lorean DMC-12 with a flux capacitor

e. A Porsche Spyder named “Little Bastard”

f. Hero

g. Chetak

h. Millennium Falcon

ANSWER

S.No The Ride The Rider

a. K.I.T.T Michael Knight

b. Mystery Machine Scooby Doo Gang

c. Hamsa Saraswati / Bramha

d. De Lorean DMC-12 with a flux capacitor Doc Emmet Brown

e. A Porsche Spyder named “Little Bastard” James Dean

f. Hero Phantom

g. Chetak Rana Pratap

h. Millennium Falcon Hans Solo

• What event is this Economist Headline about ?

QUESTION 3

• French forces combating Islamists in Mali

ANSWER

• Identify this eccentric business tycoon wanted in Belize for questioning and recently arrested in Guatemala and deported to United States

QUESTION 4

• John Mcafee

ANSWER

• Identify the Advertiser

QUESTION 5

ANSWER

• Logo of which Hockey India League team and also who are the owners ?

QUESTION 6

ANSWER

• OPEC was made of 12 members, but from 2003 to 2004 their membership was increased ? How and Why ?

QUESTION 7

• Iraq was occupied by the CPA (Coalition Provisional Authority) whose main member was the USA. So US was also considered a de facto member for the period

ANSWER

• What was the only thing Dritharastra has seen in his entire life ?

QUESTION 8

• Vishwaroopam

ANSWER

Releasing

Soon ????

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• X’s work “De Architectura” is a series of ten books and the only surviving major book on architecture from classical antiquity. In Book 3 pertaining to the design of temples he writes

“ …In truth they are as necessary to the beauty of a building as to that of a well formed human figure, which nature has so fashioned, that in the face, from the chin to the top of the forehead, or to the roots of the hair, is a tenth part of the height of the whole body. From the chin to the crown of the head is an eighth part of the whole height, and from the nape of the neck to the crown of the head the same………..……….The navel is naturally placed in the centre of the human body, and, if in a man lying with his face upward, and his hands and feet extended, from his navel as the centre, a circle be described, it will touch his fingers and toes. ….. For measuring from the feet to the crown of the head, and then across the arms fully extended, we find the latter measure equal to the former; so that lines at right angles to each other, enclosing the figure, will form a square.”

Name him or how has the previous passage been encoded famously ?

QUESTION 9

• Marcus Vitruvius Pollio and the Vitruvian Man

ANSWER

• Who makes her acting debut in this movie ?

QUESTION 10

• Asha Bhosle

ANSWER

• How do we better know a gentleman by the name of Count Orlando Mazzotta holding an Italian passport while travelling in Europe ?

QUESTION 11

• Subash Chandra Bose

ANSWER

• Identify this famous “hunter” from his safari to Africa, where a staggering 11,400 animals were either killed or trapped. Ironically his lasting popular legacy comes from an animal he refused to kill.

QUESTION 12

• Teddy Roosevelt

ANSWER

• What is the name given to this effect ?

QUESTION 13

• Time Slice

ANSWER

• The Video is about how to make Steak Tartare. What is its significance ?

QUESTION 14

• First Video Tweet

ANSWER

• This is a rendering of the proposed Zhuhai – Hong Kong Bridge. What is the specific purpose of this design? (sidenote : this was not the winning design)

QUESTION 15

• This is to ensure a smooth transition from a left hand drive (Hong Kong) to right hand drive (China) and vice versa.

ANSWER

• In the town of Saveh, currently in Iran, Marco Polo during his journey claims to have seen the tombs of Melichior, Casper and Balthasar with their bodies still entire, with hair and beard remaining. How do we collectively know them as ?

QUESTION 16

• The Magi (The Three Kings who bore gifts to Baby Jesus)

ANSWER

• Where are you likely to find these living root bridges made out of roots of trees ?

QUESTION 17

• Meghalaya

ANSWER

• In Biological sciences what is the opposite of extinct i.e. the word used to refer to a species/taxa that is surviving or still alive?

QUESTION 18

• Extant

ANSWER

• Movie Poster for which movie ?

QUESTION 19

• The Fake Movie Argo

ANSWER

• How do you get those Scallywags to stop rhyming ? ( Hint : Its about a fruit which will stop a disease common among sailors )

QUESTION 20

• “We can avoid Scurvy, if we eat an orange”

ANSWER

• What is this photographed for the first time by Enzo di Fabrizio and colleagues sometime late last year ?

QUESTION 21

• The DNA

ANSWER

• Name the non profit organisation with this logo and the tagline “It takes just 6 gms of Gold to lift the worth of a nation”

QUESTION 22

• Olympic Gold Quest

ANSWER

• Edgar Mitchell : Javelin :: ___________ : Golf ?

QUESTION 23

• Alan Shepard. First and only Lunar Olympics

ANSWER

• A oft quoted apocryphal tale is “this” originated from the name United States (more specifically US) and morphed into its present form. But a more likely tale is that it originated from this impressa of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, which was then was featured on the Spanish “Pieces of eight”

QUESTION 24

• The Dollar Sign $

ANSWER

• FITB

QUESTION 25

ANSWER