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Rules

• You will have 6 rounds in total.Details and rules of each round will be given by the QM before each round

• QM’s decision is final

• So lets rumble!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kick Off

When Sachin Tendulkar played is first match against Pakistan, he didn’t sign a contract with the BCCI.Why????

• He was underage and was not eligible on signing the contract

 The MIT students calculated my speed to be around 1046 km/sec. The total load weight involved in my transfer is 3210000 tonnes. 214000 living organisms of the same species are involved in my transfer. I have 918 million destinations to reach in 31 hours across 24 time zones visiting 822.6 destinations per second. Who or what am I?

• Santa Claus

In which every day used item would you see the following

Fluorescent fibresSecurity ThreadReflective FoilsMulti tone watermark

• Currency Note

• First Sherlock Holmes book

Barbara Millicent Roberts is better known to us by another name. At 5'9" tall and weighing 110 lbs, she would have a BMI of 16.24 and fit the weight criteria for anorexia.  She owns over 40 pets including cats and dogs, horses, a panda, a lion cub, and a zebra. She has owned a wide range of vehicles, including pink Corvette convertibles, trailers, and jeeps. She also holds a pilot's license, and operates commercial airliners in addition to serving as a flight attendant.

How do we better know her

• Barbie

Audience

If Neil Armstrong is the first man on moon.Who is the first Russian????

• No Russian has ever landed on moon yet

Current Affairs

Why in news

• Flag of the Italian Navy.It flaired a huge controversy when it was asked to be put up in the Ferrari F1 car to protest against the arrest of two Italian Marines

• Lt.Gen(Rtd) Kuldip Singh Brar.Was the head of Operation Blue star.

• Recently hit by a radical group in London

• X is an Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper. X spent time in the Austrian military where he practiced parachute jumping, including training to land on small target zones. In 1999 he claimed the world record for the highest parachute jump from a building when he jumped from the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. On 25 July 2003, X became the first person to skydive across the English Channel using a specially made carbon fiber wing.He is currently sponsored by Red Bull.

• Felix Baumgartner.Recently made news by doing a freefall from space

Who is presently in command of the International Space Station?????

Audience

Id this “artist”

• S Sreeshanth

Daivithinde Swantham Naadu

• Born in a poor backgrnd ,he started out selling soda bottles.later his talent and passion for the game was rightly harnessed and he became one of the best players in india.having won the player of the year in 1993 ,1997 and 1999, the first player to win the award multiple times.He was also awarded the Arjuna award in 2003.id this person who holds a record in his sport and was in the news recently

• I M Vijayan

• Which town in Kerala was called Muziris

• Kodungaloor

• Travancore

• Managalavanam in Vypin

• E C G Sudarshan

• O M Nambair, PT Ushas coach

Audience

• Rolls-Royce, the quintessential British carmaker that was adored by several Indian Maharajas is now adding a bit of India to its cars. The carmaker is importing x from India to be used to make veneers used in the interiors of the Ghost and the Phantom.The astonishing fact is that X is the only product from india used in the interiors of Rolls royce cars!it get even better because of the origin of the poduct X.Is is a well reputed and saughtafter product which only attains its special characters when produced in Kerala..ID X

• Malabar teak wood

Audio Visuals

Give me the funda behind this cartoon

•  Darwin being ridiculed for suggesting man evolved from apes in his published work The Origin of  species.

Give funda

• The special oscar award given for snow white and the seven dwarfs

• Theory Henry’s Hand of God 2

George Orwell wrote a book called "1984" which is about one government that controls everything society does , and the person on the screen is called "Big

Brother". In 1984 IBM was the "Big Brother" of the computer industry. So In this commercial , "Big Brother" symbolizes IBM , and the woman that throws the hammer symbolizes X starting a new "Era" or "Revolution" by launching this

famous product..ID the product and X

Maccintosh by Apple

The song,gonna fly , by Bill Conti was made familiar to us through a something.How??

• Theme song of rocky Balboa

• Starting of Kingfisher Airlines

Audience

Connect

• Challenger,Columbia,Discovery,Endeavour

• All are space shuttles

• Bear,Peacock,lion,palm leaf

• The golden film Awards

• Honeycomb,Gingerbread,Doughnut,Éclair,ICS,Cupcake

• Android OS

• These are the lgos for the cities bidding for playing host to the 202 Olympics

• Magic carpet,Belgium,Glaidator,Golden Sickle,Olympics

• Asterix titles

• All of them appear in currency notes

Audience

• Airline companies

The Decider

This is the Hoolock gibbon..But thats not the question.What makes the hoolock gibbon

special to us?

• One of the only 2 apes found in India of which the second is us

• Sofia the potato,• Logo of Uncyclopeida

• Shane Warne magic ball which was selected as the ball of the century

X is a process of convenience which was invented by Larry Tesler at XEROX Parc for the Smalltalk-76 programming environment, in 1973-76. In Smalltalk, you had a large number of commands you could apply to the text inputted into the system. ‘again', 'doit', 'compile',, 'cancel', 'align' are some of them. But it was later modified for convenience to include only 3...ID this most famous process which all of us has used at least once.

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