RULES-

1. 25 questions in the prelims.2. No negative marking.3. Multiples of five are star marked. In case of a tie ,the team

with the higher number of stark marked questions correct will move to the next round.

4. Top 6 teams qualify for the finals.

Best Of Luck!

1. X is a word that is derived from Ancient Greek for ‘without knowledge.’ It was coined and first used by Thomas Henry Huxley in a speech at a meeting of the Metaphysical Society in 1869 to describe his philosophy, which rejects all claims of spiritual or mystical knowledge .Being a scientist, above all else, Huxley presented X as a form of demarcation. A hypothesis with no supporting objective, testable, evidence is not an objective, scientific, claim. What is X?

2. Sleeping on Jupiter won the DSC prize for literature in 2015. Who is the writer of this book?

3. Nagnath S. Inamdar (1923-2002)was a Marathi novelist whose career spanned almost five decades. Inamdar rose from humble beginnings to establish himself as one of India's best novelists. He is also credited with earning recognition for Marathi literature in a country dominated linguistically by Hindi.Why was he in the news last year?

4. A ________________or nevus flammeus is almost always caused by a vascular anomaly (a capillary malformation in the skin). ________________ ordinarily persist throughout life. The area of skin affected grows in proportion to general growth. They occur most often on the face but can appear anywhere on the body, particularly on the neck and upper trunk. In adulthood, thickening of the lesion or the development of small lumps may occur. They are named as such for their color.

5.* This former haveli belongs to the Thakurs (Khangarot Rajputs) of X. Each of the Thakurs, since its construction in 1980s, added to the present structure, which in 1991 was partly converted to a heritage hotel by the present owners Thakur Ram Pratap Singh X and his wife, Jyotika Kumari X. It is located in Jaipur, Rajasthan. It was converted into a heritage hotel, but a part is still occupied by the royal family, which also runs the hotel.

6.Which fashion house has recently come out with a collection of Hijabs and Abayas targeting the customers in the Middle East?

7. Tweets regarding what?

8. The Hype was a band formed by X in 1970. They were originally called Harry the Butcher, then X’s imagination. X has said he choose the name tongue in cheek. The band has been credited with helping to form the glam rock scene in the 1970s.

Their first performance was badly received, the band was laughed and jeered at as they left the stage.Members included:X, alias Space Star/RainbowmanMick Ronson, alias Gangsterman Tony Visconti, alias Hypeman John Cambridge, alias CowboymanMick 'Woody' WoodmanseyBenny Marshall

9. Conrad Veidt was a German actor who is known for his roles in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and to the English-speaking population for Casablanca. However, there is another role of his that has received cult status. It is also said to be in the inspiration behind another character. Which character?

10.*X was a painter born on July 6, 1907. However, she wanted her birth to coincide with the beginning of the Mexican revolution and therefore changed it to July 7 , 1910. She married to famous Mexican painter Y. It was Y's third marriage and people often referred to the couple as "The elephant and the dove" due to the difference in their size. X suffered lifelong health problems and recovering from them isolated her from other people, and this influenced her works. X suggested, " I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best. "

11. Robert Catesby John Wright Thomas Wintour Thomas Percy Robert Keyes Thomas Bates Robert Wintour Christopher Wright John Grant Ambrose Rookwood Sir Everard Digby Francis Tresham X?

12. Designed by artist Shepard Fairey, X has been widely described as iconic and has come to represent _______ (a person).The design was created in one day and printed first as a poster. Fairey sold 350 of the posters on the street immediately after printing them. It was then more widely distributed—both as a digital image and other paraphernalia—nearly a decade back, initially independently but later with official approval.The image became one of the most widely recognized symbols of ________’s message, spawning many variations and imitations.This led The Guardian's Laura Barton to proclaim that X "acquired the kind of instant recognition of Jim Fitzpatrick's Che Guevara poster, and is surely set to grace T-shirts, coffee mugs and the walls of student bedrooms in the years to come."What am I talking about?

13. The inspector pointed his cane at me and said, “You, young man, are an intelligent, honest, vivacious fellow in this crowd of thugs and idiots. In any jungle, what is the rarest of animals- the creature that come sonly once in a generation?” I thought about it and said __________.“That’s what you are in this jungle.” Excerpt from which book.

14. The signatories believe X should be _______________________for his continued, unrepentant hate speech and unacceptable behaviour. His unacceptable behaviour is well documented, and we feel it foments racial, religious and nationalistic intolerance which should not be welcome in the UK.The UK has ________________ to many individuals for hate speech. This same principle should apply to X. We cannot see how the United Kingdom can condone ______________ to the country.

This is some part of the text of a petition in UK that attracted a lot of attention recently. It even received more than the required 100,000 signatures and was debated in the Parliament. What was the petition about?

15.* X, while living in Southsea, used to play football as a goalkeeper for Portsmouth Association Football Club, an amateur side, under the pseudonym A. C. Smith. He also has to his credit a not so illustrious cricketing career of 10 first class matches played on MCC ground in which he ended up taking just one wicket of Y, a legend who has in kitty 54,211 first class runs which includes 124 centuries and 251 half centuries. Y has also taken 2,809 wickets including 5 wickets in an inning 240 times and 10 wickets in a match 64 times. X received knighthood later for his contribution to a different field altogether.

16. Identify.

17. X is a phantom island that was reputed, during the 15th-century age of exploration, to lie in the Atlantic Ocean, far to the west of Portugal and Spain. The island also went by the name of Isle of Seven Cities. What is this in India named after?

18. This photo in a newspaper, Der Tzitung, was the centre of controversy a couple of years back.It shows the US President Obama and his national security team watching the raid that killed Osama bin Laden from the White House Situation Room. What was the controversy ? (Photo on the next slide)

19. According to legend, on his 1762 visit to Schonbrunn, the Austrian royal palace, a 7-year-old boy, X, playing with the young princesses, slipped on a polished floor. Bursting into tears, he was picked up and comforted by a 7-year-old girl Y. X then kissed Y. “You are nice,” he declared. “I will marry you.”X did not end up marrying Y, who got married into the royal house of a neighbouring country.Both X and Y went on to die in their 30s—X of disease, Y of beheading.

ID X and Y.

20.* Advertisement for what?

21. While recovering from the shrapnel wounds that he received in the first World War, DeWitt Wallace had the idea of gathering a sampling of favorite articles on many subjects from various monthly magazines. What resulted thus?

22. X was ruler of Bharatpur in Rajasthan, India. A contemporary historian has described him as "the Plato of the Jat people" and by a modern writer as the "Jat Odysseus", because of his political sagacity, steady intellect and clear vision. There are claims that he caused two large silver doors at the entrance of the Taj Mahal to be stolen and melted down in 1764.A metro station and an institute in Delhi have been named after this person.

23. This game was banned by King James II in 1457, as an unwelcome distraction to learning archery. Its economic impact on the US economy is more than $170 million. It is being reintroduced in the Summer Olympics to be held in 2016. Name it.

24. First known use of what term?

Who can think at this present time without a sickening of the heart of the appalling slaughter, the suffering, the manifold misery brought by war to Spain and to China? Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new ________________________________? FITB.

25.* X worked for a company Y which was named after a famous fortification constructed by the Dutch West India Company in the 1640's. X was abducted and killed by the members of Al-Qaeda on alleged charges of his too much involvement in the machinations of Al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent. X and Y?

(Photo on the next slide)

1. X is a word that is derived from Ancient Greek for ‘without knowledge.’ It was coined and first used by Thomas Henry Huxley in a speech at a meeting of the Metaphysical Society in 1869 to describe his philosophy, which rejects all claims of spiritual or mystical knowledge .Being a scientist, above all else, Huxley presented X as a form of demarcation. A hypothesis with no supporting objective, testable, evidence is not an objective, scientific, claim. What is X?

Agnosticism

2. Sleeping on Jupiter won the DSC prize for literature in 2015. Who is the writer of this book?

Anuradha Roy

3. Nagnath S. Inamdar (1923-2002)was a Marathi novelist whose career spanned almost five decades. Inamdar rose from humble beginnings to establish himself as one of India's best novelists. He is also credited with earning recognition for Marathi literature in a country dominated linguistically by Hindi.Why was he in the news last year?

4. A ________________or nevus flammeus is almost always caused by a vascular anomaly (a capillary malformation in the skin). ________________ ordinarily persist throughout life. The area of skin affected grows in proportion to general growth. They occur most often on the face but can appear anywhere on the body, particularly on the neck and upper trunk. In adulthood, thickening of the lesion or the development of small lumps may occur. They are named as such for their color.

Port Wine Stain

5.* This former haveli belongs to the Thakurs (Khangarot Rajputs) of X, a thikana or estate 40 km south-west from Jaipur, earlier part of the Jaipur state. Each of the Thakurs, since its construction in 1980s, added to the present structure, which in 1991 was partly converted to a heritage hotel by the present owners Thakur Ram Pratap Singh X and his wife, Jyotika Kumari X. It is located in Jaipur, Rajasthan. It was converted into a heritage hotel, but a part is still occupied by the royal family, which also runs the hotel.

Diggi Palace

6.Which fashion house has recently come out with a collection of Hijabs and Abayas targeting the customers in the Middle East?

Dolce & Gabbana

7. Tweets regarding what?

Casting Of Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson

8. The Hype was a band formed by X in 1970. They were originally called Harry the Butcher, then X’s imagination. X has said he choose the name tongue in cheek. The band has been credited with helping to form the glam rock scene in the 1970s.

Their first performance was badly received, the band was laughed and jeered at as they left the stage.Members included:X, alias Space Star/RainbowmanMick Ronson, alias Gangsterman Tony Visconti, alias Hypeman John Cambridge, alias CowboymanMick 'Woody' WoodmanseyBenny Marshall

9. Conrad Veidt was a German actor who is known for his roles in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and to the English-speaking population for Casablanca. However, there is another role of his that has received cult status. It is also said to be in the inspiration behind another character. Which character?

10.*X was a painter born on July 6, 1907. However, she wanted her birth to coincide with the beginning of the Mexican revolution and therefore changed it to July 7 , 1910. She married to famous Mexican painter Y. It was Y's third marriage and people often referred to the couple as "The elephant and the dove" due to the difference in their size. X suffered lifelong health problems and recovering from them isolated her from other people, and this influenced her works. X suggested, " I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best. "

Frida Kahlo

11. Robert Catesby John Wright Thomas Wintour Thomas Percy Robert Keyes Thomas Bates Robert Wintour Christopher Wright John Grant Ambrose Rookwood Sir Everard Digby Francis Tresham X?

Guy Fawkes

12. Designed by artist Shepard Fairey, X has been widely described as iconic and has come to represent _______ (a person).The design was created in one day and printed first as a poster. Fairey sold 350 of the posters on the street immediately after printing them. It was then more widely distributed—both as a digital image and other paraphernalia—nearly a decade back, initially independently but later with official approval.The image became one of the most widely recognized symbols of ________’s message, spawning many variations and imitations.This led The Guardian's Laura Barton to proclaim that X "acquired the kind of instant recognition of Jim Fitzpatrick's Che Guevara poster, and is surely set to grace T-shirts, coffee mugs and the walls of student bedrooms in the years to come."What am I talking about?

13. The inspector pointed his cane at me and said, “You, young man, are an intelligent, honest, vivacious fellow in this crowd of thugs and idiots. In any jungle, what is the rarest of animals- the creature that come sonly once in a generation?” I thought about it and said __________.“That’s what you are in this jungle.” Excerpt from which book.

14. The signatories believe X should be _______________________for his continued, unrepentant hate speech and unacceptable behaviour. His unacceptable behaviour is well documented, and we feel it foments racial, religious and nationalistic intolerance which should not be welcome in the UK.The UK has ________________ to many individuals for hate speech. This same principle should apply to X. We cannot see how the United Kingdom can condone ______________ to the country.

This is some part of the text of a petition in UK that attracted a lot of attention recently. It even received more than the required 100,000 signatures and was debated in the Parliament. What was the petition about?

Banning Donald Trump’s entry from UK

15.* X, while living in Southsea, used to play football as a goalkeeper for Portsmouth Association Football Club, an amateur side, under the pseudonym A. C. Smith. He also has to his credit a not so illustrious cricketing career of 10 first class matches played on MCC ground in which he ended up taking just one wicket of Y, a legend who has in kitty 54,211 first class runs which includes 124 centuries and 251 half centuries. Y has also taken 2,809 wickets including 5 wickets in an inning 240 times and 10 wickets in a match 64 times. X received knighthood later for his contribution to a different field altogether.

X- Arthur Conan DoyleY- WG Grace

16. Identify.

Andy Warhol

17. X is a phantom island that was reputed, during the 15th-century age of exploration, to lie in the Atlantic Ocean, far to the west of Portugal and Spain. The island also went by the name of Isle of Seven Cities. What is this in India named after?

Antilia

18. This photo in a newspaper, Der Tzitung, was the centre of controversy a couple of years back.It shows the US President Obama and his national security team watching the raid that killed Osama bin Laden from the White House Situation Room. What was the controversy ? (Photo on the next slide)

The Jewish newspaper photoshopped Hillary Clinton from the photo.

19. According to legend, on his 1762 visit to Schonbrunn, the Austrian royal palace, a 7-year-old boy, X, playing with the young princesses, slipped on a polished floor. Bursting into tears, he was picked up and comforted by a 7-year-old girl Y. X then kissed Y. “You are nice,” he declared. “I will marry you.”X did not end up marrying Y, who got married into the royal house of a neighbouring country.Both X and Y went on to die in their 30s—X of disease, Y of beheading.

ID X and Y.

X- MozartY- Marie Antoinette

20.* Advertisement for what?

21. While recovering from the shrapnel wounds that he received in the first World War, DeWitt Wallace had the idea of gathering a sampling of favorite articles on many subjects from various monthly magazines. What resulted thus?

22. X was ruler of Bharatpur in Rajasthan, India. A contemporary historian has described him as "the Plato of the Jat people" and by a modern writer as the "Jat Odysseus", because of his political sagacity, steady intellect and clear vision. There are claims that he caused two large silver doors at the entrance of the Taj Mahal to be stolen and melted down in 1764.A metro station and an institute in Delhi have been named after this person.

Suraj Mal

23. This game was banned by King James II in 1457, as an unwelcome distraction to learning archery. Its economic impact on the US economy is more than $170 million. It is being reintroduced in the Summer Olympics to be held in 2016. Name it.

24. First known use of what term?

Who can think at this present time without a sickening of the heart of the appalling slaughter, the suffering, the manifold misery brought by war to Spain and to China? Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new ________________________________? FITB.

Weapons Of Mass Destruction

25.* X worked for a company Y which was named after a famous fortification constructed by the Dutch West India Company in the 1640's. X was abducted and killed by the members of Al-Qaeda on alleged charges of his too much involvement in the machinations of Al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent. X and Y?

(Photo on the next slide)

X- Daniel PearlY- Wall Street Journal

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