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 Each right answer fetches you 10 points.
 Infinite Pounce
 A wrong pounce will result in a deduction of 5 points.
 No negative marking if a question is passed.
 Incase of doubts, go for the funny answer.
 The quizmaster’s decision is not final, you can coax
him into giving you points by bribing
him.(Weaknesses include Dairy milk Silk and Five
Star) ;-)

“Stewart and his team put out several issues of The
Whole Earth Catalogue, and then when it had run its
course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s,
and I was your age. On the back cover their final
issue was a photograph of an early morning country
road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if
you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words:
“____ ______. ____ _______." It was their farewell
message as they signed off. ____ ______. ____
_______. And I have always wished that for myself. And
now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
____ ______. ____ _______.”
Which famous phrase?

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 It’s designer French mechanical engineer Louis
Réard named it after the group of islands in the
Pacific Ocean where the United States had
conducted its first peace-time nuclear
weapons test. His hope was that it would create
an explosive commercial and cultural reaction,
similar in intensity to society's response to the
nuclear test. It did, and the name stuck with the
media and public. What am I talking about?

 20 years old who
currently lives in
Italy.
 What did he create
which has found
interest with geeks
and others alike?

 Lou Gehrig
 Stephen Hawking
 Mao Zedong

 In a special episode of Top Gear held at the Beaulieu
National Motor Museum in Hampshire, X won the
title for the world’s best taxi. Other competitors
included 1997 Fairway Driver, 1970 Volkswagen Beetle,
Ford Crown Victoria, Toyota HI Ace, and the Mercedes
E-Class.
 Identify X.

 In computer architecture, a 32 bit integer can encode a
number as high as 2,147,483,647. However, this
company had to change its entire architecture from a
32 bit to a 64 bit integer encoding in 2014. Which
“occurrence” caused this?

 “Biteman” is a modified version of Pacman based on a
certain famous personality hailing from South
America. Several incidents have made him the centre
of controversies several time, once in 2010 among
many other times when the The Dutch daily
newspaper ”De Telegraaf” branded that person, the
"Cannibal of Ajax”.
 Identify this super controversial superstar.

 Which confectionary brand partnered with Japan’s
postal service, to create a post card like product sold at
the post office that could be mailed to students as
edible good luck charm?

 In Jan 2015, an American brewery found itself the
subject of Indian protests for the name of one of its
India Pale Ales. The name, an ironic choice for a beer
label, had been accompanied by a line on its website
saying the beer is an "ideal aid for self-
purification...".What was the fuss about?

It had been named "Gandhi-bot",
which led Indians to protest against
the use of Mahatma Gandhi's name
and likeness.

 All the directors of the the given movies have directed
all the movies from the famous Harry Porter
Franchise.
 Home Alone(Chris Columbus)- Part 1 & 2.
 Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron)- Part 3
 Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell)- Part 4
 Tarzan (David Yates)- Part 5-8.

 From Psycho onwards, Alfred Hitchcock’s cameos
began occuring much earlier in his films than before,
so that the audience would stop looking out for his
cameo and pay attention to the movie. Mahesh Bhatt
recently said that he used a very similar technique for a
staple feature of his films as well. What feature?

 He kept Emraan Hashmi’s kissing scenes quite early in
the movie.

 Three animated features to have been
nominated for the Academy Award for Best
Picture.

 Lunchbox Electronics have recently introduced a new
3D printed add-on to LEGO building models,
something that unusually hasn’t come up in anyone’s
heads until now. It quite literally, brings the models to
life. They only just hit their Kickstarter goal, and have
started selling these kits online.
 What long missing feature have they helped introduce
into LEGO models?

 Nicknamed Padfoot, is the last heir to the House of
Black. He is a mass murderer incarcerated in prison of
Azkaban for 12 years.
 Commissioner of Gotham City.
 Ludwig Van Beethoven

 The satirical news site "The Onion" makes a selection
for its "Person of the Year". For the first time, two
people were chosen: one of them was the teen activist
Malala Yousufzai (well, of course). The other was a
'sportsman' who won the most important prize in his
'sport' in 2014, using as the Onion remarks: "[moves]
such as the "Attitude Adjustment" and the "STFU"".
 Who is this worthy winner?

 The WWE wrestler John Cena.

 "The Sixth ________: An unnatural history" won the
2015 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book
by Elizabeth Kolbert claims that we are currently in the
middle of the 6th version of an event that results in a
dramatic decrease in life on Earth (some of the
previous 5 are Triassic-Jurassic and Late Devonian).
 What word completes the title of this book, and what
concept is this about?

 "Extinction", referring to Mass Extinction Events.

 NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft was launched in 2004
to study a planet, which it did so until crashing into
the planet in Apr 2015. Which planet did it study,
hinted by its name?

 Mercury - MESSENGER stands for "MErcury Surface,
Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging", and
also refers to Mercury, the Roman Messenger God.

 When an asteroid is first discovered, it is given a provisional
designation like “2001 DA42″ The first four digits tell you what year it
was discovered. The last four characters tell you when in that year it
was discovered.
 Some guidelines for naming 2001 DA42:
 no more than 16 characters long (including any spaces or
punctuation);
 preferably one word;
 pronounceable (in some language);
 written using Latin characters (transliterations of names from
languages not written using Latin characters are acceptable);
 non-offensive
 Given that a certain individual died in 2001, “2001 DA42″ fit him like a
glove. Hence the asteroid was named after him. Who is this famous
author?

 A certain scientist was once studying how to stabilize a
heavy, explosive liquid. An explosion due to the
substance led to his brother’s death which encouraged
him further. Once, while transporting it he noticed the
liquid leak out of the can but the kieselguhr rock
covering the can could absorb it perfectly. Later, he
used kieselguhr to store the liquid without affecting its
power.
 Who was the scientist and what was invented as a
result of this?

 This word made its first appearance in print media as
part of a joke in the 23 edition on page two of the
Boston Morning Post, the then most popular
newspaper in March, 1839. It can be used as a noun,
verb, adverb, adjective or interjection to name a few. Its
usage may convey acceptance, mediocrity, agreement,
etc. According to a research result, this word is ‘The
most frequently spoken and typed word in the planet.’
 Identify.

 All of them have daughters named “India”.

 On Apr 1, 2015, as part of a great April Fool's joke, the non-
profit "Teach For America" announced on its Facebook
page that:
 "We're excited to welcome ____, who has accepted our
offer to join the 2015 corps after announcing his departure
from _____ last week. We believe that [his] experiences
being both revered and ridiculed by teens and preteens and
surviving Simon Cowell's management - not to mention
the overall Story of His Life - will equip him well for success
in the classroom...
 About whom was TFA talking about, and what was the
departure from?

 Zayn Malik, the English pop star, who exited from the
boy band "One Direction" in May 2015 to much
teenage heartbreak.

 Also India's second permanent research station in
Antarctica, what was the name of India's operation to
assist Nepal in the aftermath of the massive 2015
earthquake?

 In March 2015, a 30-member contingent of Indian
Army began preparing to clean one of the most littered
places on earth, hoping to come back with about 4000
kg of waste, taking a cue from PM Modi's "Swachh
Bharat Abhiyaan".
 To be attempted in May 2015, where are they taking the
cleanliness campaign?

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