AGNI11 GENERAL QUIZ-FINALS

Research by,
1. Subramanian Venkataraman 2. Guruprasad Sridharan

6 Rounds
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2.
3. 4. 5. 6.

Infi Bounce-1 LVC Infi Bounce-2 Written Relative SVC-1 SVC-2

Round 1
Infi bounce-1

18 questions, Clockwise
+10/no negs..

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A massive creature with a massive head, X is

described as having a black coat with a large white star on his brow. He is also supposed to have had a "wall", or blue eye, and his breeding was that of the "best Thessalian strain". Ancient accounts state that X died after the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC, in what is now modern Pakistan, and was buried in Jalalpur Sharif outside of Jhelum, Pakistan. Another account states that X was buried in Phalia, a town in Pakistan's Mandi Bahauddin District, which was named after him. X???

 Bucephalus..

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X was introduced around 1900 by the Swiss

physician Maximilian Bircher-Benner for patients in his hospital, where a diet rich in fresh fruit and vegetables was an essential part of therapy. It was inspired by a similar "strange dish" that he and his wife had been served on a hike in the Swiss Alps. Bircher-Benner himself referred to the dish simply as "d'Spys" (Swiss German for "the dish", in German "die Speise"). X in its modern form became popular in western countries starting in the 1960s as part of increased interest in health food and vegetarian diets.Traditional X was eaten with orange juice and not milk. X??

 Muesli..

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X was one of his kind in his field.. Having

identified his talent, his master took him to train him.. During the training X tried to woo his masters mate.. Knowing this master chucked him out of his place.. X came out and started his career to meet his basic amenities.. Eventually, X became the legend in his field.. X??

 Ludwig van Beethoven

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X was a group of friends in Bern Switzerland, who

met usually at Y's flat in order to discuss philosophy and physics. The group played a major role in Ys intellectual development.. X was founded by Y , and two of his friends, One of them was a Romanian philosophy student , who answered Y's newspaper advertisement, though in fact neither the tutorials nor any payment materialised; instead, the two began to meet regularly to discuss their shared interest in physics and philosophy. They were soon joined by a mathematician who was Y's neighbour.. In 1902 they named themselves as X.. ID X & Y..

 X- Olympia academy

Y- Einstein

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What did this inspire??

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An ancestor of this dynasty, while in his fort,

witnessed a Muslim butcher driving a cattle for the purpose of slaughter. Being a devout Hindu, he opened a small side door to the stronghold for the cattle, thereby allowing the cows to escape their impending doom. Future generations took a great deal of pride in their roots that strongly displayed their predecessors religious fervour, and named the dynasty after the word for cow and door... A most famous person in entertainment Industry, is from this dynasty... Gimme the name of the dynasty and the famous personality ...

 Gaekwad family..

Rajini Kanth(Shivaji rao Gaekwad)

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Sildenafil was synthesized by a group of chemists

and was initially studied for use in hypertension and angina pectoris( a symptom of reduced blood supply to the heart muscle). The first clinical tests showed that the drug had little effect on angina and was discovered to be more effective for what it is being marketed today... What are we talking about???

 Viagra

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Many banks in post-Renaissance Europe issued

small, porcelain "borrower's tiles" to their creditworthy customers. Like credit cards, these tiles were imprinted with the owner's name, his credit limit, and the name of the bank. Each time the customer wanted to borrow money, he had to present the tile to the bank teller, who would compare the imprinted credit limit with how much the customer had already borrowed. If the borrower were past the limit, the teller the tile on the spot. Fill up the blank with a colloquially used term..

 Broke

Connect..

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In practice, a X is a country operated as a commercial

enterprise for private profit, effected by the collusion between the State and favoured monopolies, whereby the profits derived from private exploitation of public lands is private property, and the debts incurred are public responsibility. Such an imbalanced economy reduces the national currency to devalued papermoney, hence, the country is ineligible for international development credit and remains limited by the uneven economic development of town and country. the term X was a political descriptor first used by the American writer O. Henry in Cabbages and Kings (1904), a book of thematically related short stories derived from his 189697 residence in Honduras, where he was hiding from U.S. law for bank embezzlement. X??

 People who were originally intended for the front

cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band but were ultimately excluded:

 Banana Republic

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Connect..

 Pop culture references of fibonacci series..

Entiran reference s known to us..

Along with the golden rectangle and golden

spiral, the Fibonacci sequence is mentioned . They are used to find the name of God In 21 , the first eight numbers of the sequence are written in icing on a birthday cake which has twenty-one candles.

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Put fundae A man sits alone in a room. Someone slips paper with Chinese writing on it under the door. The man doesn't read Chinese, but with a set of instructions he's able to manipulate the symbols and respond.

 Searles Chinese room theory.. To an observer,

the man appears to understand the language. Philosopher John Searle devised the scenario in 1980 to make a point about computers. CPUs, like this man, lack comprehension and thus can't have humanlike intelligence.

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In the best selling novel X, character Y, the

overweight, cantankerous and beastly relative who keeps bulldogs, was based on the authors maternal grandmother, who preferred "her dogs to human relatives", according to the author. X,Y??

 X- Harry potter,

Y- Aunt Marge.

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X, is a large Roman Catholic church

in Barcelona, designed by Y . Although incomplete, the church is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and in November 2010 was consecrated and proclaimed a minor basilica by Pope Benedict XVI. Though construction of X had commenced in 1882, Y became involved in 1883, taking over the project and transforming the project with his architectural and engineering stylecombining Gothic and curvilinear, Art Nouveau forms with ambitious structural columns and arches. Y devoted his last years to the project and at the time of his death in 1926, less than a quarter of the project was complete. Construction passed the mid-point in 2010 with some of the project's greatest challenges remaining and an anticipated completion date of 2026the centennial of Y's death. ID X & Y???

 X- Sagrada familia

Y- Antonio Gaudi

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In Greek mythology, X is the unending stream of

water encircling the world. Together with his wife Y, he produced the rivers and the three thousand ocean nymphs..

 X-Oceanus

Y-Tethys..

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Put Fundae.. I must be absolutely certain about the psychology of the character I am writing about, and I must be equally sure of the background. I know the Tamil and Kannada speaking people most. I know their background. I know how their minds work and almost as if it is happening to me, I know exactly what will happen to them in certain circumstances. And I know how they will react.

 R.K. Narayans words about the location of

Malgudi..

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There are contradictory claims as to what the song's

lyrics refer. Some believe that they are derived from a real-life experience in which a mentally ill female fan claimed that X had fathered one of her twins. Others, pointing to the fact that X was an avid tennis fan, believed that the song was about tennis player Y; however, Y's sexual orientation since 1968 render implausible any contention that the song's narrator, who claims to have had both a romantic encounter with X and a child resulting from that encounter, was modeled on Y. The girl in the song is a composite of people my brothers have been plagued with over the years. X said that he could never understand how these girls could say they were carrying someone's child when it wasn't true. X, Y??

 X-Michael Jackson

Y-Billie Jean King

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In cricket, X is a term for a bowling strategy. Rising

rapidly off the pitch, the ball is difficult to play unless the batsman has quick footwork. Better left alone, it yields a ballooned return catch to the bowler or to close-in fielders. This is a difficult ball to bowl, since a few inches on either side would present the batsman with a short ball that can be easily put away on either side of the pitch. It is not illegal in cricket, but the number of short deliveries allowed in an over is usually restricted, and bowlers who exceed this may get a warning from the umpire. This tactic was made famous by the England team in the controversial 'Bodyline' Ashes series in 1932. In American slang, X is a term for idle talk.

 Chin Music..

Round 3
Infi Bounce-2

18 questions, Anti Clockwise

+10/no negs..

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X is described as being a certifiable genius with an IQ

of 300. His fondness for machines has also made him a renowned authority on robotics.Ultimately, X's goal is to conquer the world and create his ultimate utopia, Xland (alternatively known as the X Empire ). He selfishly never gives up on this matter, and does not care for others' opinions.He considers those who would interrupt his plans a prime threat.His abominable laughter and maniacal declarations contrast his self-professed softer side, as a romanticist, feminist, and gentleman.Despite his intelligence, X can be terribly immature, prone to childish emotional fits when he is not getting his way. Although his archenemy has always ruined his evil plans, X begrudgingly holds a secret respect for his determination.

 Dr. Eggman

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The X club is a fictional gentleman's club featured in

several Y stories, most notably "The Greek Interpreter". It seems to have been named after a Greek philosopher. The club is described in the stories as thus: "There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the X Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offences, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion. My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere. X, Y ??

 X- Diogenes

Y- Sherlock Holmes..

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The X is a corruption of the Hebrew term Y (

,)which was used in tannaitic times to refer to the Tetragrammaton. In early Kabbalah the term was used to designate sometimes a seventy-two Letter name for God, and sometimes a forty two Letter name. Rashi said Y was used for a forty two letter name, but Maimonides thought Y was used only for the four letter Tetragrammaton. A 216-letter name for God is found in Jewish Kabbalistic sources (mentioned by Tosafot as well as by the Kabbalists) as well as in Christian Kabbalah and in Hermetic Qabalah, derived from the 72 groups of three letters, each of these triplets being the name of an angel or intelligence X, Y??

 X-Shemhamsporasch

Y-Shem-Ha-Mephorash

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According to the Chinese Ming Dynasty writer Xie Zhaozhi's

book Wuzazu , the first known mention of the game, the game dates back to the time of the Chinese Han Dynasty (206 BCE 220 CE), it was called shoushiling .Li Rihua's book Note of Liuyanzhai also reveals this game, calling it shoushiling , huozhitou , or huoquan. In the 18th century these games were popular in Japan. It's known in Japan as Jan-kenpon, more commonly called janken and sometimes called rock ken . The origin or the derivation of the name is unknown. Ken is a fist in Japanese and Jan-ken-po is categorized as a "ken (fist) games. Janken is believed to have been based on two older ken games, s ken , number competing game with fingers, likely similar to or identical with Morra) and san sukumi ken , (san sukumi means the freezing aspects of a snake, frog, and slug with fear). San sukumi ken has existed in Japan since ancient times, and s ken was imported from China in the late 17th century; the name in China of s

 Rock-paper -scissors..

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In issue 33, Mad published a partial table of the X System of

Weights and Measures", developed by 19-year-old Y, later a famed computer scientist. According toY, the basis of this new revolutionary system is the X, which equals the thickness of Madissue 26, or 2.263348517438173216473 mm. A standardization in terms of the wavelength of the red line of the emission spectrum of Cadmium is also given, which if the 1927 definition of the Angstrom is taken for the value of that wavelength, would e ual 2.263347539605392 mm. Volume was measured in ngogn (equal to 1000 cubic Xs), mass in blintz (equal to the mass of 1 ngogn of halavah, which is "a form of pie [with] a specific gravity of 3.1416 and a specific heat of .31416"), and time in seven named units (decimal powers of the average earth rotation, equal to 1 "clarke"). The system also features such units as whatmeworry, cowznofski, vreeble, hoo and hah. According to the "Date" system in Y's article, which substitutes a 10-clarke "mingo" for a month and a 100-clarke "cowznofski", for a year, the date of October 29, 2007, is rendered as "To 1, 190 C. M." (for Cowznofsko Madi, or "in the Cowznofski of our MAD." The dates are calculated from October 1, 1952, the date MAD was first published. Dates before this point are referred to (perhaps tongue-in-cheek) as "B.M." ("Before MAD.") The ten "Mingoes" are: Tales (Tal.) Calculated (Cal.) To (To) Drive (Dri.) You (You) Humor (Hum.) In (In)

 X-Potzerbie

Y-Donald Ervin Knuth

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 These were the makeup designs used by the

band members of KISS when they appeared onstage for live performances

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X is a colloquialism used to refer to the

moment in a film series that is so incredible that it lessens the excitement of subsequent scenes that rely on more understated action or suspense, and it becomes apparent that a certain installment is not as good as a previous installments, due to ridiculous or low quality storylines, events or characters. The term comes from the film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
X??

 Nuke the Fridge..

Round 4
Written relative

15 questions exclusively on effects

Points/question= No. Of wrog teams*4

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X effect is a term, which hypothesizes that the self-

concept of students is negatively correlated with the ability of their peers in school: Thus, academic self-concepts depend not only on one's academic accomplishments but also the accomplishments of those in the school that a student attends. An implication of this effect is that low- or medium-ability students might prefer to attend a low-ability school instead of a high-ability school, as this would be better for their self-concept. These pupils can receive additional motivation from low- or medium-ability pupils in their class because their own achievements appear more significant. They feel more honored and may be motivated to keep their edge over the other pupils. This is especially true for pupils with a lack of self-confidence. Some parents send their children, with the explicit recommendation of psychologists, to schools that are known for a moderate

 Big Fish Little Pond Effect..

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The X effect is a theory proposed to explain

observed discrepancies between voter opinion polls and election outcomes in some United States government elections where a white candidate and a non-white candidate run against each other. The theory proposes that some voters will tell pollsters they are undecided or likely to vote for a black candidate, while on election day they vote for the white candidate. It was named after Los Angeles Mayor Y , an African-American who lost the 1982 California governor's race despite being ahead in voter polls going into the elections. X,Y??

 X- Bradley

Y- Tom Bradley

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X effect is a concept in European Union Law that allows

the use of Y effect of EU directives in private legal actions..The concept was defined by the European Court of Justice. CIA had attempted to market a burglar alarm in Belgium that was not compatible with Belgian technical specifications. However, the Belgian government had failed to report these specifications to the EU, as required by a directive in 1983. The court ruled that this constituted a substantial degradation of the effectiveness of the directive, which was intended to lower barriers to trade, and that the Belgian government's breach of the directive made the Belgian law inapplicable to individuals. The Court of Justice stated that a substantial procedural defect in implementing a directive could nullify a national law in the context of a contract,[and gave national courts the power to interpret such legal problems based on their own

 X- Incidental Effect

Y- Indirect Effect

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X effect refers to a specific effect of a catastrophic

kill on a tank or other turreted armored vehicle in which an ammunition explosion causes the tank's turret to be violently blown off the chassis and into the air. It is named after the child's toy, the X, in which a puppet pops up.While relatively uncommon, it is a very visually iconic image of the complete destruction of a tank, and is thus seen often in movies, TV, and video games. X??

 Jack in the box effect..

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The X effect in education was described by Keith

Stanovich based on the X Effect in sociology. It derives its name from a passage in the New Testament: "For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.Stanovich used the term to describe a phenomenon that has been observed in research on how new readers acquire the skills to read: early success in acquiring reading skills usually leads to later successes in reading as the learner grows, while failing to learn to read before the third or fourth year of schooling may be indicative of life-long problems in learning new skills. This is because children who fall behind in reading, read less, increasing the gap between them and their peers. Later, when students need to "read to learn" (where before they were learning to read) their reading difficulty creates difficulty in most other subjects. In this way they fall further and further behind in school, dropping out at a much higher rate than their peers.

 Matthew Effect

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X effect is a name given to an observation about the

way Google ranks web pages in its index. It is the subject of much debateits existence has been written about since 2004 but not confirmed, with several statements to the contrary. According to the effect, links which may normally be weighted by Google's ranking algorithm, not least improving the position of a webpage in Google's index, may be subjected to filtering to prevent their having a full impact. While the presence of the Google X has been long debated, Google has made no abject disclosure on the matter. However, as the X effect almost certainly refers to a set of filters in play for anti-spam purposes, it is unlikely Google would ever provide details on the matter. X??

 Sandbox Effect..

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X effect is a phenomenon often observed in the

field of microeconomics that refers to the situation where the demand for a certain good for individuals of a higher income level is inversely related to the demand for the good by individuals of a lower income level. This situation is derived by the desire to own unusual, expensive or unique goods. These goods usually have a high economic value, but low practical value. The less of an item available, the higher its X value. However the X value criterion may vary from person to person. Examples of such items with general X value are rare works of art, designer clothing, and sports cars... X??

 Snob Effect

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Id the effect..

 Thatcher Effect

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X effect is a term used in ornithology to describe

the phenomenon observed among the bowerbirds, in which there is a continuum from physically more ornamented species which construct rudimentary bowers (mating display nests), to physically drabber species which construct remarkably elaborate and colorful bowers. The postulation is that there is an evolutionary of ornamentation, as a sign of male mating health, from physical characteristics to behavioral ones with the benefit of reducing the visibility of the male and thereby its vulnerability to predation

 Transfer Effect

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X effect is a marketing phenomenon that affects

many consumer goods. Initially a product may be so expensive that only the wealthy can afford it. Over time, however, the price will fall until it is inexpensive enough for the general public to purchase. When applied to fashion, this theory states that when the lowest social class, or simply a perceived lower social class, adopts the fashion, it is no longer desirable to the leaders in the highest social class. X??

 Trickle Down Effect

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In economics, X goods are a group

of commodities for which people's preference for buying them increases as a direct function of their price, as greater price confers greater status, instead of decreasing according to the law of demand. A X good is often also a positional good. The X effect is named after economist Y, who first pointed out the concepts of conspicuous consumption and status-seeking. X??

 Veblen Effect

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X effect is a phenomenon in the psychology of

perception, named after various paintings of X gazing into a mirror. This psychological effect is often used in the cinema, where an actor will be shown apparently looking at himself or herself in the mirror. What viewers see is different from what the actor sees, because the camera is not right behind the actor, but the position of the actor is often chosen so that his or her image is nicely framed in the mirror for the camera. X??

 Venus Effect

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X effect is a term in the study

of Phonology relating to the pronunciation of stops in American English. Speakers of American English pronounce the sound [t] in characteristic but complex ways. Many have noted that the words latter and ladder are nearly homophonous, and such examples once led linguists to characterize t-flapping, where [t] sounds like [d], as occurring between two vowels where the first vowel is stressed (accented). In a dissertation in 1982, X demonstrated that speakers behavior is a good deal subtler in what has come to be known as the X effect..

 Withgott Effect..

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X effect is a term used anecdotally or in editorial

media that refers to objections against the killing of animals that are perceived as "cute" or "adorable", such as deer or dolphins, while there may be little or no objection to the suffering of organisms that are perceived as somehow repulsive or less than desirable, such as pigs or an endangered fungus and other woodland creatures. the term is inspired by Walt Disney's animated film X, where an emotional highpoint is the death of the lead character's mother at the hands of the film's villain, a hunter known only as "Man.

 Bambi Effect

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In biology and psychology, the X effect is a phenomenon

seen in nearly every mammalian species in which it has been testedwhereby males (and to a lesser extent, females) exhibit continuous high sexual performance given the introduction of new receptive partners. The original experiments with rats followed this protocol: A male rat would be placed into an enclosed large box with four or five female rats in estrus. He would immediately begin mating with all of the female rats repeatedly until eventually exhausted. Although the females would continue nudging and licking him to continue, he would not respond. However, if a novel female were introduced to the box, he would become alert and find the ability to mate once again with the new female. While the X effect is usually seen demonstrated by malesthat is, males displaying renewed excitement with a novel femaleLester and Gorzalka developed a model to determine whether or not the effect also occurs in females. Their experiment, which used

 Coolidge Effect