QUANTUM ‘14

INFINITE BOUNCE

Rules:1. 15 Questions2. If you don’t get it, it passes on to the next team.3. Once all the teams are exhausted, it goes to the audience.4. +10 for correct, NO negative marking.

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In 2006, X was named the richest fictional character by Forbes magazine.

However, he was later dropped from the list due to angry letters from children, who challenged his fictional status.

ID X.

QUESTION 1

In 2006, X was named the richest fictional character by Forbes magazine.

However, he was later dropped from the list due to angry letters from children, who challenged his fictional status.

ID X.

SANTA CLAUS

ANSWER 1

X is the most sold item in the world.

ID X.

QUESTION 2

X is the most sold item in the world.

ID X.

RUBIK’S CUBE

ANSWER 2

Advertisement for what?

QUESTION 3

Advertisement for what?

BAYGON

ANSWER 3

Pedantically speaking, if what would you be doing if you went searching for its eggs?

QUESTION 4

Pedantically speaking, if what would you be doing if you went searching for its eggs?

NIT-PICKING(nits are the eggs of lice)

ANSWER 4

The film “Byari” won the top prize at the 2011 National Film Awards.

This was the first film in this language to win ANY National Award.

Which language are we talking about, spoken in the region bordering Karnataka and Kerala?

QUESTION 5

The film “Byari” won the top prize at the 2011 National Film Awards.

This was the first film in this language to win ANY National Award.

Which language are we talking about, spoken in the region bordering Karnataka and Kerala?

BYARI(Name of the language AND the community)

ANSWER 5

Find X

QUESTION 6

USA UK INDIA

X

MEIRA KUMAR(First women speakers in their legislatures)

ANSWER 6

According to Greek mythology, Hero (a priestess) lives in a tower on one side of the Dardanelles strait.

Each night, she shines a lamp so that her lover can swim over to be with her. Then a storm happens and the light is

blown out.

The lover dies.

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Most Indians may not have heard of this myth but they have heard of at least one person with the guy’s name.

Who is he?

QUESTION 7

LEANDER

ANSWER 7

In the movie The Social Network, it is said that

“Zuckerberg was the biggest thing on a campus that included nineteen Nobel Laureates, fifteen Pulitzer Prize

winners, two future Olympians, and a movie star."

One of the lawyers then asks, "Who was the movie star?" and the response is, "Does it matter?" 

In this case, it does. Who was the movie star?

QUESTION 8

NATALIE PORTMAN(She was enrolled in Harvard at the same time as

Zuckerberg and provided Aaron Sorkin, the director, with insider info about the time Facebook was

introduced there)

ANSWER 8

In 2002, the Royal Society of Chemistry awarded an “Extraordinary Honorary Fellowship” to him, saying

"Our particular interest is his love of chemistry, and the way that he wielded such knowledge for the public good, employing it dispassionately and analytically. He also embodied other personal traits that society seeks

in today's law officers - personal rectitude and courage.”

WHO?

QUESTION 9

In 2002, the Royal Society of Chemistry awarded an “Extraordinary Honorary Fellowship” to him, saying

"Our particular interest is his love of chemistry, and the way that he wielded such knowledge for the public good, employing it dispassionately and analytically. He also embodied other personal traits that society seeks

in today's law officers - personal rectitude and courage.”

WHO?

SHERLOCK HOLMES(2002 was also the centenary of the Hound of the

Baskervilles)

ANSWER 9

“Anonymous” was a 2011 film that is based on a school of thought known as the “Oxfordian Theory” where “Oxford”

refers to the 17th Earl of Oxford.

What is the theory/Give funda.

QUESTION 10

“Anonymous” was a 2011 film that is based on a school of thought known as the “Oxfordian Theory” where “Oxford”

refers to the 17th Earl of Oxford.

What is the theory/Give funda.

That Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, was the true author

of the works attributed to Shakespeare.

ANSWER 10

In Computer Science, a randomized algorithm selects the input randomly in the hope of getting faster or better

outcomes.

Such algorithms are classified into two categories, named after two cities in Europe and USA respectively.

Give funda behind the nomenclature and name the cities.

QUESTION 11

In Computer Science, a randomized algorithm selects the input randomly in the hope of getting faster or better

outcomes.

Such algorithms are classified into two categories, named after two cities in Europe and USA respectively.

Give funda behind the nomenclature and name the cities.

Las Vegas and Monte Carlo(Being the respective centers of gambling in their

countries)

ANSWER 11

Donna Nelson is a professor at the University of Oklahoma.

She read an interview of a person in the American Chemistry Society’s magazine who talked about using the

Internet and Wikipedia for research for a project.

She offered her expertise to the person, helping to make the project realistic while leaving out key details.

What project?

QUESTION 12

Donna Nelson is a professor at the University of Oklahoma.

She read an interview of a person in the American Chemistry Society’s magazine who talked about using the Internet and

Wikipedia for research for a project.

She offered her expertise to the person, helping to make the project realistic while leaving out key details.

What project?

BREAKING BAD(The person was Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad. In addition to her advice, Nelson’s notes appear on the

blackboard as questions in classroom scenes of the show)

ANSWER 12

Which country’s flag am I describing here?

White background

Two dark blue strips, top and bottom

A blue Magen David in the center.

QUESTION 13

Which country’s flag am I describing here?

White background

Two dark blue strips, top and bottom

A blue Magen David in the center.

ISRAEL(Magen David = Star of David in English)

ANSWER 13

This auction happened during National Week, 1930.

Despite its obviously poor quality, this was sold to Dr. Kanuga for a princely sum of Rs. 1600.

What was sold?

QUESTION 14

This auction happened during National Week, 1930.

Despite its obviously poor quality, this was sold to Dr. Kanuga for a princely sum of Rs. 1600.

What was sold?

Salt made by M.K. Gandhi at Dandi

ANSWER 14

Mexico – ‘refresco’ (brand of soft drink)

Brazil – ‘cervijinha’ (a small beer)

Iraq – (a small coffee)

France/North Africa – ‘un petit cadeau’

Malaysia – ‘kopi duit’

India – X.

What is X and give funda

QUESTION 15

Mexico – ‘refresco’ (brand of soft drink)

Brazil – ‘cervijinha’ (a small beer)

Iraq – (a small coffee)

France/North Africa – ‘un petit cadeau’

Malaysia – ‘kopi duit’

India – X.

What is X and give funda

‘chai pani’(euphemism for a bribe)

ANSWER 15

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