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Les Quizerables 2K16 FINALS

RulesThis quiz consist of 5 rounds.Will be based on the pounce and bounce system.Detailed rules of each rounds will be explained whenever the quizmaster feels like.

MARKING SCHEMEDepends on each round

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Round 1

RulesThis round consist of 10 questions.Will be based on the pounce and bounce system.Other teams can pounce on the question at the cost of negative marks.Direct questions will not carry negative marking.There will be no negatives for passed questions.MARKING SCHEME+10, -5 (for pounce)

1)1)He is the leader of the All India Students Federation (AISF) the students wing of CPI. In Feb 2016 he was arrested and charged with Sedition by the Delhi Police for allegedly raising anti Indian slogans. Name him

1)

1)Kanhaiya Kumar

2) Id this Stalwart in space exploration, often called as the usherer of theSpace Age

Robert H. Goddard

3)Identify this famous actor

Heath Ledger

4) Connect these

These are actors who portrayed James bond

1)5)Name this God of all creations

1)

1)Arceus (as per the Pokmon series)

6) ThisArjuna Awardrecipient is the a co-owner of theIPTL (International Premier Tennis League )franchiseUAE Royals

Virat Kohli

1)7) This fellow had a man hanging from a cliff at the end of an episode in his novel in a magazine hence originated a famous phrase. The author and the word

1)

1)Thomas Hardy's novel A Pair Of Blue Eyes (1873) the word cliffhanger

8) Identify the painter who is famous not as a artist.

Adolf Hitler

9)Kevin Systom and Mike Krieger founded an online photo and video sharing app X in October 2010, which was later accuired by one of its rivals on April 2012. ID X.

Instagram

10)Madeira International airport in Portugal, which is informally known as Funchal Airport announced that its name will be changing to X international airport this year. X is a famous native sports person born in Madeira. ID X

Cristiano Ronaldo

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Round 2

RulesThis round consist of 12 questions .Will be based on the pounce and bounce system.Other teams can pounce on the question at the cost of negative marks.Direct questions will carry no negative marking.There will be no negatives for passed questions.MARKING SCHEME+15, -7 (for pounce only)

1)1)Charles O Rear, a former National Geographic photographer, in 1996 while driving up Napa Valley to meet his girlfriend in San Francisco. Microsoft contacted O Rear in 2000 to get ownership of Bliss, the photograph. How do we better know this picture.

1)

1)The default wallpaper in windows XP

2)This company was founded on jan 25, 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight, it officially became X on May 30, 1971. It is named X after a Greek goddess. ID X

Nike

3) Id this person whose life story has even been turned into a major motion picture, starring Leonardo DiCaprio

Jordan Belfort (the true wolf of wall street)

1)4)Marvel Comics has officially turned X into a supervillaina xenophobic, orange-haired, Captain-America-hating supervillain who is obsessed with the quality of his hands. The villain is known as the Mental Organism Designed as Americas King, or more crisply, M.O.D.A.A.K.

1)

1)Donald Trump

1)

5) Identify this CEO of a company, which is on the path of clean transportation.

1)

1)Elon Musk

6) The pic shows a fantastic goal by Hal Robson Kannu of wales against Belgium in euro cup . He dribbled fantastically between three defenders executing what is called an X turn named after the legendary footballer X who invented this technique. ID X

Johann cruyf, The Cruyf turn

7) Georges Proper Remi, a Belgian cartoonist, Is known worldwide by another name X. He began his career with the adventure of totor But is acclaimed for the creation another comic series YDue to which he is considered as one of the greatest in his field id X and Y.

X is HergeY is adventures of tintin

8)Id this famous theme song.

Game of Thrones

1)9) The best selling game of all time, originally designed and programmed by Russian game designerAlexey Pajitnov. It He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefixtetra-(all of the game's pieces contain four segments) andtennis, Pajitnov's favourite sport. Name the Game.

1)

1)Tetris

1)10) This is the song Rise by Katty Pery. NBC Sportshad announced upon its release that "Rise" would be prominently featured during its U.S. television coverageof an event.

1)

The Rio Summer Olympics

1)11) In the upcoming star trek movie Star Trek Beyond, the founder of the space exploration company Blue Origin, has one scene cameo, He is also the founder CEO of another company. ID the company and the person.

1)

1)

Jeff Bezos and Amazon

12)

They were all ailurophobic

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Round 3

RulesThis round consist of 10 questions.Other teams can pounce on the question at the cost of negative marks.Direct questions will not carry negative marking.The round will go according to the bounce system.MARKING SCHEME+20, -10 (for pounce only)

1) Name this famous cat from the Mr Bean Animated Series.

Scrapper

2) X is a personality who is famous for his athletic skills, whose middle name is Saint Leo and he was a fan of the Pakistani cricket team while he was growing up. Id X.

Usain Bolt

3)The Normandy landings (codenamed Operation Neptune) were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of German-occupied north western Europe from Nazi control, and contributed to the Allied victory on the Western Front. This day remarked by another name. Their is also a Bollywood movie by the same name. Name it

D-Day

1)4)Donato di Niccol di Betto Bardi, better known as Donatello. Raffaello Sanzio da , better known as Raphael. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo and Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, better known as Michelangelo are famous italian renaissance artists, painters and architects. Part of their names are used for a group of 4 fictional characters created by Mirage studios. Name the group of these fictional characters.

1)

teenage mutant ninja turtles

5) Todds syndrome is a rare medical condition which affects visual perception of things and size disorientation. Dr John Todd gave it another name with ref to a particular children's classic which described the above mentioned symptoms.. What is it?

Alice in wonderland symptom

6) 3 Xs for Muster Mark!Sure he has not got much of a barkAnd sure any he has its all beside the mark.

These are a few lines from finnegans wake by James Joyce. Gell-Mann(above) named something he hypothesized as XWhat is X?

Quark

7) Identify this nobel prize winning physicist and what is he talking about?

Richard P Feynman on challenger disaster

8) This is the song candle in the wind by Elton John. This is about a person called Norma Jeans. How do we know her better?

Marilyn Monroe

9) Connect these.

Saturn

th planet in solar system

Natural satellite of saturn

Natural satellite of saturn

10) This is Artem Vaulin he got arrested for his online site which gives a lot for free. Which is the website.

Kickass Torrents

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Round 4

RulesThis round consist of 8 questions.Will follow the pounce systemTheir will be negative marking.MARKING SCHEME+25, -14 (for pounce only)

1) Identify this emphatic speaker who committed suicide.

Adolf Hitler

2) On whose gravestone is the following epitaph seen. The path of the righteous man.- Ezeqiel 25:17

Nicholas J Furys (Samuel L Jackson)

3) ID this band group which covered the track "Do They Know It's Christmas?", written in 1984 by Geldof and Ure. The song was recorded by some of the biggest-selling current British and Irish pop acts, including One Direction, Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sand, Ellie Goulding and Rita Ora. Bastille and Take That also took part, along with Chris Martin (Coldplay) and Bono (U2)

Band Aid 30

4) This is a part of an episode of the Americanradio dramaanthology series. This broadcast had simulatednews bulletins, which suggested an actualalien invasionbyMartianswas currently in progress. Which caused wide spread panic. This broadcast is an adaptation of a novel. Name the novel and the writer

War of the worlds, by H G Wells

1)5) The story ofRhodopis, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt, is considered the earliest known variant of this world famous child classic (published 7 BC), and many variants are known throughout the world. Name this famous classic.

1)

1)Cinderella

6) This is Taobao City", for which company is this the main corporate campus of.

Alibaba Group

7)

These are astronomical symbols for the solar system

8) Name the famous school whose motto is Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus translated from Latin to Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon. This school is under a certain British ministry . Name this school.

Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry under the British ministry of magic

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Round 5Quantum Leap

RulesThis round consist of 10 questions .Each team will have to write down the answers on a piece of paper.Each questions will be shown for a time interval of 10s , 9s, 8s, .1s respectively.Questions will not be read out.Minimum time of 5 sec will be provided to write the answer.There will be no negatives.MARKING SCHEME+2, +4, +6,..,+20 (lesser the time more will be what u score).

Answer time

1) These are stills from the film golden gate girl (1941). Id this famous actor who is the son of famousCantonese operastar Lee Hoi-chuen

Bruce Lee

2) Name the character played by Morgan Freeman, In the above still from a Christopher Nolan Movie

Lucius Fox

3) Id this pair who discovered the double helix structure of DNA

James Watson and Francis Crick

4) Whose Cap can you find this logo

Ash Ketchum

5) Name this museum in Paris. Famous through the Dan Brown book The Davici Code.

louvre museum

6) Id this monument

East Fort, Thiruvananthapuram

7) Id this

Sistine chapel

8) Id this sports icon with Hitler

Jesse Owens

9) Id the company

IBM old logo

Id him

George R R Martin ( Game of thrones writer)

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Thank you all

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