This document outlines the rules and structure of a quiz competition. It includes 6 elements that will be covered, with 5 points given for each correct answer. Getting all questions right on a topic gives 10 bonus points. There are also questions worth 10 points each and a penalty of 10 points for incorrect answers. The competition encourages civil behavior and prohibits "uncivilized pouncing" which could result in disqualification. It covers a variety of topics ranging from films and literature to music, science, and current events.

2.  Dirty Dancing – a list it
 Lord of the Rings- 4 questions
 Clockwise Dry- 13 Questions
 Through the looking glass-4Questions
 Anti-Clockwise dry- 13 Questions

3.  6 elements
 5 points for each correct answer
 Full House gives you 10 more
 Put on your dancing shoes!

6.  FoxTrot
 Low Fox
 Tango
 Jitter Bug
 Waltz
 Rumba and Samba

7.  4 Questions
 10 points each
 Written

8.  A.P Carter was an American poet from the
early part of 20th century. His niece June was
inspired by a line from one of his poems at
the time of her relationship with an American
musician and felt as if her love for him was
burning like a fire and she penned down her
feelings .
 What resulted ?

9.  How can you
connect this image
with a song
referenced in the
Roud Folk song index
number 7925 ?

10.  The not-so-docile brother with a conscience
was played by a certainAyan Banerjee in
Tarun Majumdar’s “Dadar Kirti”.
 He was the protagonist of a maestro’s
directorial debut .
 Which film?

11.  This is a HRCT thorax image of a patient
suffering from Bronchiectasis.
 What is the description for this radiological
finding which usually refers to an object with
a seal set into it, typically by leaving an
impression in sealing wax ?

14.  A.P Carter was an American poet from the
early part of 20th century. His niece June was
inspired by a line from one of his poems at
the time of her relationship with an American
musician and felt as if her love for him was
burning like a fire and she penned down her
feelings .
 What resulted ?

16.  How can you
connect this image
with a song
referenced in the
Roud Folk song index
number 7925 ?

18.  The not-so-docile brother with a conscience
was played by a certainAyan Banerjee in
Tarun Majumdar’s “Dadar Kirti”.
 He was the protagonist of a maestro’s
directorial debut .
 Which film?

20.  This is a HRCT thorax image of a patient
suffering from Bronchiectasis.
 What is the description for this radiological
finding which usually refers to an object with
a seal set into it, typically by leaving an
impression in sealing wax ?

23.  13 questions
 +10/-10
 Uncivilised Pouncing will amount to
disqualification !

24.  The specific, at times, fussy food habits of these
creatures means raising them will lead to an
imbalance in a particular eco-system.
 Researchers from NewYork University have
vehemently opposed this new business strategy
whose target consumers are mostly from the well fed
parts of the globe.
 On the other hand, the Japanese company, Nissui has
predicted that they will be ready for marketing their
finished ‘products’ by 2020.
 What is the bone of contention all about ?

27.  Two hundred years of Newtonian physics had been
overturned. “This is the most important result obtained in
connection with the theory of gravitation since Newton’s
day,” announced the Royal Society’s president, the Nobel
laureate JJThomson.
 He was essentially lauding the work done by Arthur
Eddington and Frank Dyson, two Britishers , whose recording
and capturing of a particular phenomenon had in a way,
become a concrete proof to a German’s theory.
 Daniel Kennefick tells this story in a book titled “No shadow
of a doubt” to mark the centenary of this advancement.
 What did they do and what was established strongly by their
achievements?

30.  ‘A most moving story which chronicles the decline of
a good little man and the defection of his sons,
whom he had tried to bully into his own sham
philosophy’.
 The above is howThe Guardian reviewed this
creation of a man who would go on to become a
part of an envious list of men.
 What and Who are the actors portraying the
protagonists in two different adaptations of the
same ?

34.  The lady in the picture was the voice of two
inseparable characters from Disney’s 1955 musical,
"Lady and the tramp”.
 The song referencing the origins of these characters
have been regarded by many as a racial take on
Asians depicting them as vicious and cunning.The
notoriety eventually lead Disney to replace the
infamous song in a live action remake of the film
announced in 2018.
 What were the characters together known as andWho
is this lady who could be mistaken as an Asian ?

38.  The nomenclature of these objects were perhaps due to the
fact that Italian traders from a city would frequently visit
Persia and were impressed by the __________ coverings
installed in Persian houses.
 The fad soon spread across the Atlantic as the high society in
America took to it very quickly and incorporated them in
public buildings and government offices in America in the 18th
century.
 Closer home, an iconic film of the mid sixties had a sequence
showing the protagonist peering at the outer world and a
beautiful interplay of light and shade, created by the director
with these objects.
 What & Which film ?

41.  ByronWood, a Canadian nurse was suspended from
work after he was diagnosed with a certain ailment.
 His doctor asked him to follow the 12-step program
which would requireWood to "turn our will and our lives
over to the care of God as we understood Him," admit
his faults and make amends with those he has hurt.
Wood declined this and filed a complaint in the Human
rights tribunal.
 Whom did he sue and why ?

44.  This golden statue of a despot, a relict of the Cold
war, according to many, is one of the central
attractions of a capital city. His, autobiography
known as “The book of the soul” was made a
mandatory read for people appearing in job
interviews of his country.
 Which country?
 What is the original name of the autobiography ?
 What narcissistic decision of his in 2002 would put
to shame some of the Roman emperors ?

48.  Bob Mizer, a photographer launched a magazine,
“Physique Pictorial” in the 1950s which was sold as
a health and wellness supplement, but was in
reality, a pornographic publication for
homosexuals.
 What was the generic name for such a publication,
a term which might not be well received in our
country ?
 Which student of the Royal college of Art was
supposedly inspired from this magazine to draw
this 1962 sketch with homo-erotic connotations?

52.  A music teacher Joseph Neruda noticed a young Anna dance
merrily to a local folk tune and was so influenced by it that he
took upon himself to teach it to the young men from
Bohemia.
 The aftermath of theWW-II saw a huge Polish immigration
into the United Sates.They helped repopularise Neruda’s
contributions which had once spread across the high societies
from Prague toVienna to Paris and then across the pond, way
back in 1844.
 What is being referenced, that featured in an Imtiaz Ali
movie from this decade ?
 Which movie ?

55.  Nen Daiko is an ensemble of Ekoji
__________ _______in Fairfax Station,
Virginia, and has been performing in the
Washington DC metropolitan area since
1994.
 What performing art is their forte ?
 What popular festival are they an integral
part of, one that attracts a hoard of tourists to
DC in spring every year ?

58.  The picture on the next slide depicts several
____________ toys which form the basis of a story by
E.T.A Hoffman about a mouse king who is defeated by
this favourite Christmas toy of a child, which comes alive
in the process of doing so.
 Major American ballet companies generate nearly 40 %
of their annual revenue with the retelling of this story,
mostly during Christmas owing to a 20-minute suite that
was added to it in the later part of the 19th century.
 What is the toy known as & Who made the necessary
addition ?

62.  The following excerpt from an article inThe Irish
Times has the author reminiscing , “I soon learned the
film, which trouncedThe Godfather to win eight
Oscars, was the visible, outer___________ ____. Inside
it was theTony-winning stage musical from 1966 and
inside that again were the 1955 movie and 1951 play I
am a Camera, both starring Julie Harris. Right at the
heart were two novels by the British writer
Christopher Isherwood.”
 FITB with an inanimate object & Which film was he
talking about ?

65.  The photograph on the next slide shows a few good
men with a trophy which is awarded to the winner of a
race which can be considered to be the poor cousin of
another event held in the same country.
 The name of this event & the unique trophy is a direct
reference to the two geographical landmarks
between which the race takes place.
 What are the two landmarks ?
 What is the significance of the trophy awarded ?

69.  ____ ________ which began questioning the live-
work-reproduce cycle of the comfortable middle-class
life in post-independent India was a definitive career
defining work, written in 1963.
 A few years later ____ _______ are the last words that
appear on screen as the antagonist, gets to hear, a
lost sound from his childhood all over again while
finishing a letter to his partner. He epitomises the
growing cynicism and frustration of the times that
was hinted upon in the former work.
 FITB with two separate phrases !

72.  4 Questions
 Written
 10 Points for every correct answer

73.  At fifteen, a routine school exam showed that he
suffered from myopia, and his parents took him
to a local optometrist, who determined that he
had 20/800 vision in both eyes.
 He hated the idea of appearing onstage in
glasses. But eventually had to give in and this pair
of glasses became iconic, so much so that a 1981
MCA album released a couple of decades after
his death had only this pair on its cover.
 Who ?

75.  “Whose Body?” is the book where
LordWimsey makes his first
appearance. A central plot point of
this novella is a crime scene where a
victim found dead in a bathtub
wearing nothing but a pair of
_________.
 What was the victim wearing, also
directly referenced in a Sherlock
Holmes murder mystery ?

76.  “The General” was a special edition sunglass
that was released by Ray Ban in 1987.
 Who was it a tribute to ?

77.  This cricketer was picked in the squad for the
home series againstAustralia in 2001 but
never made the final eleven, an astonishing
fact considering India played seven different
spinners across the three tests.
 That was, effectively the swansong of his
career.
 Who ?

79.  At fifteen, a routine school exam showed that he
suffered from myopia, and his parents took him
to a local optometrist, who determined that he
had 20/800 vision in both eyes.
 He hated the idea of appearing onstage in
glasses. But eventually had to give in and this pair
of glasses became iconic, so much so that a 1981
MCA album released a couple of decades after
his death had only this pair on its cover.
 Who ?

82.  “Whose Body?” is the book where
LordWimsey makes his first
appearance. A central plot point of
this novella is a crime scene where a
victim found dead in a bathtub
wearing nothing but a pair of
_________.
 What was the victim wearing, also
directly referenced in a Sherlock
Holmes murder mystery ?

84.  “The General” was a special edition sunglass
that was released by Ray Ban in 1987.
 Who was it a tribute to ?

86.  This cricketer was picked in the squad for the
home series againstAustralia in 2001 but
never made the final eleven, an astonishing
fact considering India played seven different
spinners across the three tests.
 That was, effectively the swansong of his
career.
 Who ?

88.  13 questions
 +10/-10
 Uncivilised Pouncing will amount to
disqualification !

89.  In 2000, theVienna Philharmonic gave a moving
performance of this piece at Mauthausen, a Nazi
concentration camp, in front of an audience of survivors.
 The choice was considered controversial because it was
played at a “politically motivated propaganda” event
decades ago.
 What piece ?
 Which event?
 What version of this tune courted controversy for a
gesture that can be put down as an existential crisis ?

92.  A MariaTash ___ does not come cheap: prices
range from £42 for a simple gold threaded one
to £5,890 for a pear-shaped diamond. As they
are designed to be “stacked” inside getting the
look can run to thousands of pounds.
 What was MariaTash a pioneer at ?
 In this context what do words
conch,helix,rook,haith together signify ?

95.  The objects in the following image have been
christened as “Archaeology awareness
playing cards”.These were introduced in 2007
following success of its counterpart in the
earlier part of the decade.
 What was the purpose of these cards ?
 What was the target of its previous
counterpart ?

99.  “I’d rather see no _________ movie made than a
bad _________ movie.”- is how the author once put it.
 Multiple scripts were written throughout the 1990s,
there was aTV show in 2010, a film in 2013, an
attempted rewrite of that film in 2016 – but none of
this means that Netflix’s 2019 literary project is
doomed to fail.
 Which movie is supposed to entertain us in near
future?
 Who is the author ?

102.  Indentured labourers who came here brought X
along with them.They settled in this land of sun
and sand and adopted the local language used in
the sugarcane plantations.
 X today leaves on through a popular mash up
between X andY and has even achieved
international acclaim.
 What are X andY and what desi name has been
given to this mash-up probably reflecting on the
after-taste that it leaves behind ?

105.  “You see, a house is just a space, but a home is where
you belong. And what makes this global community so
special is that for the very first time, you can belong
anywhere..”
 This is how a co-founder of an organisation put it when
asked about their new logo in 2014 which was given a
name that meant “belonging”.
 This logo incorporates 4 simple elements. If two of
them are a head & a heart, what are the other essential
entities ?
 Which organisation ?

108.  A 1873 essay on Hindu Philosophy remarks , “A Hindu
philosopher in __________’s place would have
contented himself with simply announcing in an
aphoristic sutra that the air had weight… no
experiment would have been made with the mercury;
no Hindu ________would have ascended the
Himalayas with a barometric column in hand.”
 FITB with the concerned names.
 Where did this author channelize his scientific aptitude
to come up with several articles on scientific
breakthroughs before the mid-19th century ?

111.  There is an urban legend that ___________ was
added to the food of US soldiers duringWW-II,
Korean andVietnam wars to reduce their sexual
drive and in a way prevent unwanted pregnancies
in a far-off land.
 However, this object can quite ironically be
associated with another kind of explosion and has
been used as a principal ingredient of
____________, a fact that everybody remembers.
 What was allegedly used and Where does it find
its actual utility ?

114.  “ Hereditary transmission of fistulae auris” is a
journal article published in ‘The _________
Physician’.
 It focuses on abnormal fissures on the external
ear as a hereditary trait.The researcher noted
that individuals who have this trait also tend to
have a dimple on their chin.
 Who is the acclaimed doctor ?
 What is the name of the publication, quite fitting
that it would publish his works ?

117.  What is the very apt caption of this political
cartoon by Ben Garrison ?
 The basic premise of this cartoon has had
countless popular culture references, the latest
of those which is in the Amazon PrimeT.V. series
“Good Omens”. One of the elements here has
been replaced with a truly modern day hazard
which looms a large dark cloud over our
existence.
 What relevant replacement ?

121.  _____________ & Company is a world famous
bookstore in Paris, set up by Sylvia Beach in 1919
which decided to publish a novella serialised in an
American Journal between 1918 and 1921 and as
usual had very few takers at the time of going
into print.
 Which book is this ?
 What is the very dramatic name of this book
store that would evoke the memories of a comic
elegy of sorts from the 1960s ?

124.  Joy Harjo has been recently nominated as the
23rd American XY. She is the first native
American and probably the best saxophonist to
hold this honour.
 On her appointment, the Albuquerque Journal
came out with an editorial titled “Harjo’s
appointment is _______ _______to celebrate”
 FITB.
 What is her claim to fame ?

126.  MCKQC
 Team FAQ
 Central & Aryapriya
 Scorer
 Lastly the great “Nigill”..

129.  The stretch between Khanna Market and
Meherchand Market has been utilised in an
unique way by a foundation since 2015.
 According to a founder member, "Our intention
is to activate new cultural spaces in the city that
encourage people to step out and explore
different neighbourhoods.”
 Which place in Delhi is being spoken about ?