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YE 2012. Version 4.0 ‘Anything that's worth having is sure enough worth waiting for!’ Now, that the wait is over, let’s have some fun.

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  • 1.YE 2012. Version 4.0 Anything thats worthhaving is sure enough worth waiting for!Now, that the wait is over, lets have some fun.

2. Quiz Master.I am Gopalakrishnan.Doing my UG in Production Engineering in PSG Tech.Risky business.Seat belts on.Let us battle it out. 3. INFY BOUNCE. 10 questions. Clockwise. A perfect +10 for the correct answer. No negatives. 4. 1.This is a proposed single-seater sports car racingseries. The inaugural season is planned for the 2012season. The races will be held in India, Qatar,Bahrain and UAE. What am I talking about?Clues if all teams agree. 5. 2. Gobind Behari Lal, Geeta Anand, Jhumpa Lahiri, __________. Connect and complete the list. 6. Siddhartha Mukherjee. IndianRecipients of the Pulitzer Prize 7. 3. He was born in 1954 as Rangaraj Subbiah. Heresided in Ram Nagar and did his schooling inSuburban School and graduated in Botany at theGovernment Arts College. He is currently based in Chennai and claims to be agreat fan of Dr. M.G.Ramachandran. His son does the same profession he does. ID the person. 8. Namma ooru! Sathyaraj! 9. 4. Google doodle for? 10. MarkTwains176thbirthdayanniversary! 11. 5. Who is the acting Governor for the State of Kerala? 12. H.R.Bharadwaj, who took the additional charge asthe Governor of Kerala. 13. 6. Nowroji Saklatwala (1934-38) was the first Non-X chairman of X group of companies. When Y takes over by the end of 2012, hell be the second. Identify X and Y. 14. Who else! Cyrus Mistry 15. 7. It is a sister city of Toledo in Ohio, US andEsslingen in Stuttgart, Germany. ID the city. 16. Namma ooru Coimbatore! 17. 8. During a campaign in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, Indira Gandhi was quoted saying, If I die today, every drop of blood will invigorate this nation! When did she say this? 18. On October 30, 1983.The next day, she was shot dead. 19. 9.The noun form of X comes from a MythologicalScandinavian monster. In English, X refers to a fishing technique. The contemporary use of X is alleged to haveappeared in the 1980s, but documented only in1992. Recently popular. 20. TROLL! 21. 10. American pitcher Gaylord Perrys manager once joked, "Theyll put a man on the moon before he hits a home run!, during the 1963 season. What happened later? 22. Just hours after Armstrong landed on the moon,on July 20,1969, Perry hit his first and last homerun. 23. AUDIENCE! 24. AUDIENCE! 25. INFY BOUNCE- 1 10 questions. Clockwise. A perfect +10 for the correct answer. No negatives. 26. 1.Which word is the latest addition to Oxford dictiona 27. Kolaveri 28. 2.X, a major coffee company chain has tied upY, a famous Indian business house to launchservices in India. ID X and Y 29. Tata Global Beverages 30. 3. Old logo for? 31. AUDI 32. 4. Connect 33. Operation Geronimo. Geronimo.Osama Bin Laden was shot dead and it was the name given 34. 5.All over the world people use t9 mode forWhat is the full form of t9? 35. Text on 9 keys, developed by Tegic commu 36. 6.Which is the Longest train service in Ind 37. Vivek ExpressDibrugarh ,Assam to Kanyakumari ,Tamilnadu for a huge 4286 km 38. 7.Collectively know as Arab Spring has spreacountries in the Arab LeagueWhich country did it start in? 39. Tunisia 40. 8.USA is the Worlds Largest Economy followeChina in 2nd placeWhich country occupies the 3rd? 41. INDIA!Japan was the third. But was replacedby India post the tsunami disaster 42. 9.With reference to World Financeexpand OWS 43. Occupy Wall Street 44. 10.Which actor wanted to joinIndian Youth Congress but was rejected? 45. Who else!Vijay! 46. AUDIENCE Belinda ClarkSachin Tendulkar_______?_______ 47. AUDIENCEHow many times has Brazil won the Olympics fo 48. AUDIENCE! 49. Jeopardy! Rules3 topics. Each topic has 6 questions.Each team gets to choose 1 question.When you choose the question, you choose your points! 50. AUDIENCE 51. AUDIENCE 52. AUDIENCEWhat movie is the celluloid adaptation of Facebooks story? 53. INFY BOUNCE. Tock Tick Tock Tick (Anti-clockwise) +10 No negatives 54. 1. How many times has India won the Hockey World Cup? 55. 2. Put funda 56. Hand mit Ringen (Hand with Rings): printof Wilhelm Rntgens first "medical" X-ray, of his wifes hand, taken on 22December 1895 57. 3. 58. Paul McCartney was thought to be dead. He proved itwrong with this!It is the only original UK Beatles album sleeve to showneither the artist name nor the album title on its frontcover. 59. 4. ID the occasion. 60. Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao getting a child through Surrogacy 61. 5. He served the IAF between 1964 and 1972 and was a recipient of 8 medals in his career. He joined hands with Jaypee Group to form JPSK Sports Private Ltd. ID the person. 62. Suresh Kalmadi 63. 6 Beginners method, optimized beginners method,Ortegas method, Watermans method. What am Italking about? 64. Methods to solve Rubiks cube 65. 7 ID the songwriter/guitarist with whom Metallicaworked in collaboration to release their latest albumon October 31, 2011? 66. 8 In 2007, India and US signed a pact under whichIndia exchanged X for Harley Davidson motorbikesfrom US. Identify X. 67. 9 On 24 April 1973, when his son was born, Rameshdecided to name his son X as a dedication to amusician Y wit h the same first name.Identify X and Y. Part points. 68. 10. When Li Na won the French Open in 2011, she was hailed as the first Asian to have won a GrandSlam. Really? If not, who did it first? 69. SPORTS.30/-15 25/-12 20/-1020/-1018/-9 25/-12 70. X is the father of Y.X is an athlete who competed in 1960 Rome Olympics. Xshistory is being made into a movie to be released soon.Y is a golfer. ID X and Y 71. X- Milkha Singh, the flying Sikh Y- Jeev Milkha Singh 72. 25/-12 73. Marco Simonicelli & Dan Wheldon.Both were race drivers who lost their lives in 2011. 74. 20/-10 75. Timeless Test The match took place for 10 days. Longest Test match ever played 76. 20/-10 Wimbledon:2010 683 minutes, 215 aces. 2011 123 minutes, 16 aces.What am I talking about? 77. John Isner- Nicholas Mahut @ Wimbledon 78. 25/-12 Luis Figo (POR) Ronaldo (BRA) Saviola (ARG) Bernd Schuster (GER) Luis Enrique (ESP) Robert Prosinecki (CRO) Gheorghe Hagi (ROM) Michael Laudrup (DEN) What unique Record do they hold? 79. The only players to have played for both Barcelona andReal Madrid 80. 18/-9 A few contemporaries of Sir Don Bradman gathered somewhere in Sydney on the 4th of August 2008 to celebrate the legendary batsmans birth centenary - a good 23 days before his actual birth centenary day i.e 27th of August 2008. Why was that particular date chosen and not his actual birthday? 81. Don Bradmans average is 99.94. So they paid tribute bycelebrating his 100th Birthday 99.94 years after his birthday 82. Entertainment30/-15 25/-12 20/-1020/-1018/-9 25/-12 83. 30/-15 X beat her ex-husband to win the Academy Award for the Best Director. Identify X 84. Katherine Bigelow, for The Hurt Locker 85. 18/-9 While receiving the Academy Award in his deathbed, X said, As a small schoolboy, I was terribly interested in cinema, became a film buff, wrote to Deanna Durbin, got a reply, was delighted. Wrote to Ginger Rogers, didnt get a reply. Then I wrote a twelve-page letter to Billy Wilder after seeing Double Indemnity. He didnt reply either. Well, there you are! 1983: Bhanu Athaiya1992 :X 2009: AR Rahman , AR Rahman and Gulzar, ResulPookutty . 86. 25/-12. Identify the epic Tamil movie that is inspired by this movie. 87. 25/-12Connect 88. John Lennon. 89. 20/-10 Thangachi Munnetra Kazhakam a.k.a. All India Latchiya Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. Parties started by whom? Known for his Kural TV fame. 90. T R Rajendar 91. 20/-10Connect Nargis Dutt Lizzy Priyadarshan Kushboo Nayantara Julia Roberts George Harrison 92. Actors/Actresses who converted to Hinduism 93. Current Affairs30/-15 25/-12 20/-1020/-1018/-9 25/-12 94. 30/-15 95. PIPA & SOPA 96. 25/-12* Jimmy Connors* Ivan Lendl* Guillermo Vilas* Andre Agassi* Stefan Edberg* John McEnroe* Ilie Natase* Brian Gotfried _____________.Complete and connect the list. 97. Roger Federer. Completed 1000 ATP matches 98. 25/-12 99. Padma Vibhushan Shri K G Subramanyan Late Shri Mario De Miranda Late (Dr.)Bhupen Hazarika Dr. Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti Shri T V Rajeswar 100. Samoa Times, the newspaper20/-10catering to people of theIndependent State of Samoa did notpublish the newspaper on December30, 2011. Why? 101. Samoa skipped 30th Dec 2011. Changeof Dateline! 102. The first documented use of the20/-10term X as it is understood today was in2003 in a blog entry posted in theaftermath of its creation and happening.X was added to the 11th edition ofthe Concise Oxford English Dictionary in2004 where it noted it as an "unusual andpointless act. Identify X. 103. FLASHMOB!!!! 104. 18/-9X was 6 years old when he watched as two ofhis cousins died due to a landmine left behindby the Royal Italian Army. This influenced Xsviews towards Italy and colonial powers.Although he was only of the rank of aLieutenant, he was often referred as aColonel. Later, when his Political partyconferred upon him the honorary rank of aMajor General, he still wanted to be knownas the Colonel. Identify X. 105. Muammar Gaddafi