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2011

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Rules

12 questions clockwise. May be dry or visual or AV Infinite Bounce Pounce allowed. +10 on a direct or a pass. +10/-5 on pounce.

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Question 1 The Hard Rock Café

chain of music-themed pubs and restaurants has had the phrase ‘Love All, Serve All’ as its slogan since its inception in 1971. This phrase is taken from a quote – by whom?

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Fill in the blank.

25/6/2011 Focus India National Quiz 2011

Question 3

25/6/2011 Focus India National Quiz 2011

Abanindranath Tagore portrayed X as a four-armed

Hindu goddess wearing saffron-colored robes, holding a book, sheaves of rice, a mala, and a

white cloth. The image of X was an icon to create nationalist feeling in Indians during the

freedom struggle. Which goddess am I talking about???

Question 4

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Identify the child in the video.

Question 5

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Mahapini in Burma, Dhotakar in Mongolia, Sokaprak in Tibet, Prahakness in Cambodia, Kalantak on Java island. In Japan he can be found in a Kangiten.

How do we know him in India?

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Mattur / Mathur, a village located on the banks of the river Tunga in Shimoga district.

Jhiri, a village in Rajgarh District of Madhya Pradesh

Both these villages are famous in the country for a continuing a vital element of Indian culture more faithfully than most other places in India. What?

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The world found him on Dec. 2, 1957. A balding, befuddled, bespectacled, tooth-brush moustached, middle-aged gentleman blinking at a school boy reading out of a text book, "The greatest Russian revolutionary is The Sputnik. It has revolved around the Earth more than 4267801000 times".

Who?

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What does this

depict??

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25/6/2011 Focus India National Quiz 2011

Whose self portrait is this?

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Identify the character or tell me what was it the mascot of?

Question 11

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He is widely known as India's first YouTube sensation. And he comes with the added promise of “Quality, First Class, ________ Trademark”. He's been seen singing to “Mummy, Daddy” that he wants “the Love Marriage”, expounding the virtues of “Chicken 65”, and donning a Chennai Super Kings jersey to explain the rules of cricket, in rhyme, no less. He has also been touring the world with an aim of “making the ordinary man extra-ordinary.” Who am I talking about?

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Question 12

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Audience

Ad for?

Differential scoring

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Rules

8 questions. All answers are to be written If only 1-2 teams get it 25 points if 3-4 teams get it, 15 points if 5-6 teams get it, 10 points if 7-8 teams get it, 5 points

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Question 1

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Google launched this doodle when a certain technology entered India.What??

Question 2 An article in the Asian Age newspaper stated that

experts in Assam are worried about a distortion of the colloquial nomenclature of X, saying that this word was misinterpreted by the (Western) media to mean "ghost”. In 2009, scientists at India's Defense Research and Development Organization announced plans to use the peppers in hand grenades, as a non lethal way to flush out terrorists from their hideouts and to control rioters. X reported a rating of 855,000 heat units (SHU) on the Scoville scale.(which is a Guinness world record in its category)

Id X

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Question 3

x was first mentioned in the text lokavidaya by pingala who used binary system to represent small and long syllables like Morse code.aryabhatta said the following verse about x "sthanam sthanam dasha gunam"x???

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Come, come, ye saints, no toil nor labor fear;But with joy wend your way.Though hard to you this journey may appear,Grace shall be as your day.Tis better far for us to striveOur useless cares from us to drive;Do this, and joy your hearts will swell -_________!________!

Why should we mourn or think our lot is hard?'Tis not so; all is right.Why should we think to earn a great rewardIf we now shun the fight?Gird up your loins; fresh courage take.Our God will never us forsake;And soon we'll have this tale to tell-______!_______!

Connect to a phrase

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The original design of what???

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I started when I was six. My mother taught me how to play. In fact, my mother used to do a lot for my _______. We moved to the Philippines shortly afterward. I joined the club in India and we moved to the Philippines for a year. And there they had a TV program that was on in the afternoon, one to two or something like that, when I was in school. So she would write down all the games that they showed and the puzzles, and in the evening we solved them together.Of course my mother and her family used to play some ______, and she used to play with her younger brother, so she had some background in ________, but she never went to a club or anything like that.So we solved all these puzzles and sent in our answers together. And they gave the prize of a book to the winner. And over the course of many months, I won so many prizes. At one point they just said take all the books you want, but don't send in any more entries.X talking about his introduction to ________.Just tell me who is X

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The different people who featured in X are Kamal Hassan, Amitabh Bachchan, Mammootty, Mithun Chakraborty, Tanvir Ashai , K. R. Vijaya, Revathi, Jeetendra, Waheeda Rehman, Hema Malini, Tanuja, Sharmila Tagore, Shabana Azmi, Deepa Sahi, Om Puri, Dina Pathak, Meenakshi Seshadri (Actors: Film and T.V.) Mallika Sarabhai (Dancer) Mario Miranda (Cartoonist) Mrinal Sen (Filmmaker) Sunil Gangopadhyay, Annadashankar Ray (Authors) Bhimsen Joshi, M Balamuralikrishna, Lata Mangeshkar, Suchitra Mitra (Singers) Narendra Hirwani, S Venkataraghavan, Prakash Padukone, Ramanathan Krishnan, Arun Lal, P. K. Banerjee, Chuni Goswami, Syed Kirmani, Leslie Claudius, Gurbux Singh (Sportsmen), Pratap Pothan, AV RamananThe song's lyrics are unique. A single phrase meaning “When my musical note and your musical note merge, it becomes our musical note” is repeated in 14 Indian languages basically stressing on the unity of India.Id the song.

Mixed bag

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TOPICATER nomenclature comics Architecture Science Food Movies Sports IT

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Rules

8 questions. Infinite Bounce Pounce allowed. +10 on a direct or a pass. +10/-5 on pounce.

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Question 1

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_________ is Sanskrit for "Great Soul" it is similar in usage to the modern Christian term saint. Vedas say, that association of great soul is very rare: "the association of a ________ is very rare, and yet it is available to a sincere seeker." Krishna also speaks about this in Bhagavad-Gita: "After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.“The term is also used to refer to adepts, or liberated souls.Fill in the blanks.

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X yet to be published comic book created by Virgin Comics. It will be illustrated by Jeevan Kang. The series will feature him as a protagonist, battling demons, using a sword that resembles a ________, and which was handed down to him across the ages. The same sword gives him magical armour, which allow him to produce superhuman feats, and allows him to become a superhero.Give me X or the person on whom it is based

Question 3 1. 'X' collected stones from the Shivalik

foothills and neighboring riverbeds on his bicycle over a period of seven years (1958 to 1965) and created this landmark what would otherwise have been a dumping ground for urban and industrial waste. The creator picked up pieces of foundry lime-kiln and metal workshop wastes and shaped them with his creative genius, resembling human, animal or abstract forms. The layout is based on the fantasy of a lost kingdom. What is 'X' and who created it?

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Question 4

"thata cha smaryate yojamam sahastre dwe dwe shate cha yojane ekain nimish

ardhen kramamana namostute iti. this is a prayer to the sun god

mentioned as a commentary by sayanacharya on the 4th verse of the hymn of rig veda 1.50

Whats this got to do with science??

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Question 5

X is traditionally made from rice and leg of a goat. It is derived The name is derived from the Persian word beryā(n) which means "fried" or "roasted”. The different varieties of X include lucknowi,calcutta,iraqi,irani,sindhi etc

Id X

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Question 6

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Cartoon networks parody of which movie??

Question 7 X was a prominent Indian cricket administrator. X

was the President of Board of Control for Cricket in India from 1977 to 1980 and Secretary from 1960 to 1965. He also served as the vice president and joint secretary for long terms. He represented India in the International Cricket Council in 1965, 1973 and 1977 - 1980. A lawyer by profession, he actively practiced from 1925 till 1975.. He was the treasurer and second official to the Indian tour of Australia in 1967-68 and as the manager when Australia returned the visit two years later. MCC honored him with a life membership in 1969.

How has X been immortalized in India??

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Question 8

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Id this IT wizard

Write Bros

Rules

8 visuals Put funda….+10 for every right answer. Bonus of +15 if all the 8 are correct.

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Anti-Clockwise

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12 questions Anticlockwise. May be dry or visual or AV Infinite Bounce Pounce allowed. +10 on a direct or a pass. +10/-5 on pounce.

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Question 1 The origin of x is said to be from the

mahabharatha. Once when arjuna was wandering late in the

evening he found 3 bright color saris. as he found no one near it he picked them up and took them to his mother kunti who was praying when he arrived. arjuna interrupted to show her what he had brought but kunti with her eyes still closed told him to divide whatever he had brought equally among all of the brothers. so the brothers dutifully cut each sari into equal parts and distributed it among themselves.

What attire is this the origin of???

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Question 2

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This is the cart used to carry lord jagannath during rath yatra . Due to the huge crowds during rath yatra many people would inevitably be crushed under the huge wheels of this cart. This lead to an English word meaning a literal or metaphorical force regarded as mercilessly destructive and unstoppable. Which word???

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connect

Question 4• An ancestor of this dynasty, while in his fort,

witnessed a Muslim butcher driving a cattle herd for the purpose of slaughter. Being a devout Hindu, he opened a small side door to the stronghold for the cattle. Thereby, allowing the cows to escape their impending doom. Future generations took a great deal of pride in their roots that strongly displayed their predecessor’s religious fervour, and named the dynasty after the word for cow & door.

• Also tell me who is the most famous person in entertainment from this dynasty who changed his named altogether.

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Question 5 In Tamil Nadu it is a prevalent myth, that Andaal

worshipped Lord Thirumal and get married in the month of Markazhi. So this month, unmarried girls got up before dawn to welcome God and did something in an act of remembrance of this incident.

Legend has it that once when a the son of a certain king died, Brahma is supposed to have asked the king to built on land a sculpture of the boy given sketches of the boy so that he could be brought back to life.

In this context is another story that Brahma had a craze for the common juice of a certain fruit. So using the nectar of the fruit he drew a figure of a woman. This is sometimes referred to as the first instance of ______.

stories and circumstances behind what??

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Question 6

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•Harshvardhan Nawathe — 1st to achieve it in 2000. •Ravi Saini — did it in the junior section in 2001•Vijay and Arundhati Raul —did it together in 2001.•Ajay Devgan and Kajol —did it together in 2005. •Brajesh Dubey — did it in season 2•Rahat Taslim — did it last year

•What ???

Question 7

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Put funda as to why bmtc chose this type of font.

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In the authors own words X is a combination of recession, unemployment, cricket-craziness, psychotropic substances and a lifetime of stupidity. The idea is said to have been inspired from the Richard Gere movie The Hoax.Id X or Y??

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Amita __________ is a fictional character from the TV series Numb3rs.she is an said to have she received a doctorate in computational mathematics with Charlie Eppes as her thesis adviser at California Institute of Science, the same institution where she currently holds a faculty position. Which famous Indian is she based on??

Question 10

Vijay Mallya tweeted thus, “The ______ _______ _______ did successfully what our intelligence failed to do that is to stop Pakistan from entering Mumbai.”

Fill in the blanks… and put funda…

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Question 11 Iznogoud is the second in command (Grand

Vizier) to the Caliph of Baghdad Haroun El Poussah (Haroun El Plassid in English, a pun on the historical Caliph, Harun al-Rashid) but his sole aim in life is to overthrow the Caliph and take his place. This is frequently expressed in his famous catch phrase, "I want to become Caliph instead of the Caliph" which has passed into everyday French for qualifying over-ambitious people who want to become chief. Iznogoud is always assisted in his plans by his faithful henchman, Dilat Larath.

How has Iznogoud been immortalized in India??

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Question 12

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X ‘s great great grandfather was an orthodox tamilian Brahmin priest migrated to Gwalior to take up employment as a Brahmin high priest under the peshwas. The movement from south to north required him to sport a new surname. Thus he chose a surname which vaguely means “a person from the south.”

This is how X explains his surname.