Mind Game: Archive::QM:- Sanjay Krishna Part-1

1. When Takashi Hashiyama, CEO of a Japanese television equipment manufacturer, decided to auction off the collection of impressionist paintings owned by his corporation, including works by Cézanne, Picasso, and van Gogh, he contacted two leading auction houses, Christie's and Sotheby's,seeking their proposals on how they would would maximize profits. Both firms made elaborate proposals, but neither was persuasive enough to get Hashiyama’s business.

Unwilling to split up the collection into separate auctions, Hashiyama asked the firms to decide between themselves who would hold the auction, which included Cézanne's "Large Trees Under the Jas de Bouffan", worth $12–16 million.

The houses were unable to reach a decision. Hashiyama told the two firms to do "X" to decide who would get the rights to the auction, explaining that "it probably looks strange to others, but I believe this is the best way to decide between two things which are equally good". So what did thee houses "Do" to decide who would get the paintings?

2. Maurice Tillet was a French professional wrestler who developed acromegaly, a rare disease that causes bones to grow wildly and uncontrollably. Soon his whole body was disfigured as a result.His form was an inspiration for which character?

3. Mechthild Pierick who hails from a farming community in Reken, Germany is the Superior General of this org.The quality of care offered to terminally ill patients in this org. for the Dying has been criticized in the medical press, notably The Lancet which is considered a pioneer in Medical Journals, which reported the reuse of hypodermic needles, poor living conditions, including the use of cold... baths for all patients, and an approach to illness and suffering that precluded the use of many elements of modern medical care, such as systematic diagnosis. Dr. Robin Fox, editor of The Lancet, described the medical care of this org.as "haphazard", as volunteers without medical knowledge had to make decisions about patient care, because of the lack of doctors. He observed that the org. did not distinguish between curable and incurable patients, so that people who could otherwise survive would be at risk of dying from infections and lack of treatment. .which organization am i talking about?

4. According to Barks' as noted by a TIME article, X is worth one multiplujillion, nine obsquatumatillion, six hundred twenty-three dollars and sixty-two cents.
In the __________ Liquid Assets, Fenton Crackshell (X's accountant) notes that X's money bin contains 607 tillion 386 zillion 947 trillion 522 billion dollars and 36 cents. Don Rosa's the Life and Times of X notes that X amounts to five mult...iplujillion, nine impossibidillion, seven fantasticatrillion dollars and sixteen cents.
Forbes has occasionally tried to estimate X's wealth in real terms; in 2007, Forbes estimated his wealth at $28.8 billion; in 2011, it rose to $44.1 billion due to the rise in gold prices.
One website used the size of X's Money Bin as a basis and calculated that it could contain over $27 trillion.
Barks himself has said that the fortune is five billion quintiplitilion unptuplatillion multuplatillion impossibidillion fantasticatrillion dollars.

identify X

5. Boogie Woogie was the first dance show format to hit Indian Television. It has been entertaining audiences over the past 9 years. Hosted by the popular Film and Television personalities Naved and Ravi, the highlight of the show is Javed Jaffery who is the permanent celebrity judge. Boogie Woogie is the ideal platform to showcase & launch new talent across the cross section of people from all backgrounds, age groups, genders and cities. It is an iconic series, which has attracted celebrities like Esha Deol, Juhi Chawla, Rohit Roy, Mallika Sherawat, Govinda, Prabhudeva, Shefali Zariwala and Aadesh Srivastava as judges to add zeal and enthusiasm to the contest. Who was its South Zone champion in 1995?

Mind Game: Archive::QM:- Debasish Mukherjee Part 1

1. The Tata’s forayed into Retail when they bought a British departmental store in Bangalore. Name this departmental store.

2. He was the youngest division chief in the World Bank at the age of 28. He has held very senior positions in the Govt of India & is now the deputy chairman of the Planning commission. Name him?

3. Which product from India took this year's top prize in The Wall Street Journal's Asian Innovation Awards?

4. He graduated from IIT Kharagpur in 1989 as a mechanical engineer.After a short spell with TATA Steel he joined the Indian Revenue Service. On a sabbatical he formed Parivartan a delhi based NGO. Thereafter he resigned from his job to work full time at Parivartan.Name him?

5. Which business group last week unveiled a new corporate identity including a new logo and tagline 'growing legacies'?

Mind Game: Archive::QM:- Sudip Roy Part 2

Trivia on Indian River names
1. The original name of this river is after sage Vishwamitra. present name is a corruption of the original
2. Name of this river makes it ... in bollywood style, 'river no. 1' or the best of all rivers.
3. The name of this river is derived from a phrase meaning ' made of three streams'.
4. The older name of this river is literal translation of 'flow of gold'.
5. The vedic era name of this river means 'noisy'.

Mind Game: Archive::QM:- Sudhindra Duvvuri Part-1

1. Explain what happens next.

2. Identify the "great" man.

3. The name of which South Indian Brahmin community comes from the Telugu words meaning "father or sire" and "ji" ?

4. Before Siddhartha Gautama became the Buddha, he underwent through a lot of cycles of births and deaths and was known as the ___________ . These lives are captured in the Pali cannon as the _________ _______ .

5. X was a kid when he went to a temple and saw a mouse eating the prasad offered to the idol. He wondered if an idol that couldn't defend itself was worth being prayed to and was severely rebuked upon putting this Q to the elders. Growing older, he denounced idol worship and set up Y.

Mind Game: Archive::QM:- Sudip Roy Part 1

1.what is the single word in Sanskrit / Bengali to describe heaven and earth together ?

2.In one of the Indian epics, One character married the girl who his cousin loved and wanted to marry. The son of the cousin however was a close ally of the uncle. Name the three.

3.Rabindranath Tagore was keen on sports like jujitsu, gymnastics.... even football, but not much is known about his liking for the game of cricket. Poet's active interest in cricket is recorded to have lasted only for 3 months in the year 1898 at the ripe age of 37 when his elder brother Satyendranath tried to initiate him to this game. however Tagore got injured in a practice session at a ground opposite his elder brother's residence in Ballygunge and that was the end of his active interest in the game. Nevertheless, in the Ashad issue of the magazine 'masik basumati', in the bengali year 1362, a story entitled 'kabigurur crickret khela' was published where Tagore was potrayed to have played a cricket match in a team called 'Tagore Wanderer's' comprising of the then bidyotjans against a team of 'princes eleven' comprising of then maharajas and princes. while Rabindranath led his team, Who in the story led the princes team ?

4.coming to word play, which cardinal number in Tamizh is synonymous to 'alongwith' in another north indian language ?

5. which surname of bengalis is shapeless and white in taamizh

Mind Game: Archive::QM:- Sneha Jha Part-1

1.X adopted the famous pseudonym after a stint of imprisonment ,as an anagram of the Latinized spelling of the original surname and the initial letters of 'le jeune' meaning 'the younger').The name also echoes in reverse order the syllables of the name of a family chateau, which is now a museum. The town of Ferney, where X lived out the last 20 years, is now named Ferney-X in honor of its most famous resident. Also famous are X's last words were: "Now, now, my good man, this is not the time for making enemies." Identify X.

2.Born as Angelina Yeoward, she was one of the first performers to record music on the first 78 rpm gramophone record in India. She has recorded in more than ten languages including Bengali, Hindustani, Gujarati, Tamil, Marathi, Arabic, Persian, Pushto, French, and English.She popularised light Hindustani classical music and also the technique of condensing performing the elaborate melody Hindustani classical style to just three and a half minutes. She gave her maiden performance at the royal courts of Darbhanga Raj. She was famously invited to perform at the coronation of King George V at Delhi Durbar. What is she better known as?

3.X was given the nickname Y for being as soft as silk at birth. The nick Y became popular thanks to X's father, when he named their house after Y. He also wrote a set of five different books comprising of tales from Panchatantra and named it after Y as the stories were written as narrated to X as a kid. X? Y?

4.The symbol X is a common substitute for the English word Y and is a ligature of the letters in the Latin word for Y.Through popular etymology, it has been claimed that the French physicist Ampere used X in his widely read publications, and that people began calling the new symbol "Ampere's Y". X and Y please.

5.X spent forty-five years of his life on travels away from his home. He became a buddhist monk and eventually took up Marxist Socialism. He was also an Indian nationalist, having been arrested and jailed for three years for creating anti-British writings and speeches.Although he did not have any formal education, in view of his knowledge and command over the subject, University of Leningrad appointed him Professor of Indology in 1937-38 and again in 1947-48. Identify X.

Mind Game: Archive::QM:- Anindya Bhattacharjee Part-1

1. Which artform is believed to have originated time of the Ramayana, when King Janak ordered the artists in his kingdom to make beautiful paintings for the wedding of his daughter, Sita, to Lord Rama?

2. Phulkari is a style of embroidery. What is the term for a cloth which is fully covered with phulkari?

3. According to legends a demon frequently plundered this place. Terrorized by him the locals pleaded with Lord Brahma forprotection. Brahma then "pulled out of his own body", an eight armed goddess who vanquished the demon. Brought to his knees, the demon implored the goddess to take his name and built a temple in her honour. She is considered the patron of salt collectors and fishermen. Who is she/What is named after her?

4. In 1834 a committee appointed by William Bentick came up with what conclusion which was followed up by “experiments” in north Bengal and later north east?


5. In 1932 what first in the world was accomplished at the Palamau Forests after considering
a. Pug Marks
b. Length of stride.
c. Details of walk speed.
d. Surface and texture of the ground (hard or soft).
e. Information on the surrounding area.
f. Scratch marks.
g. Visual sightings.
h. Time/Date/Signature
i. Anything else considered to be of importance

Mind Game: Archive::QM:- Aniruddha Dutta Part-1

1. It is the world's oldest extant international organization. Its authority comes from agreements made at the Congress of Vienna, held in 1815 in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. This agreement still governs the principles of the organization today. Then, as now, the member states are Germany, Belgium, France, Netherlands, and Switzerland. The United States was temporarily a member immediately after World War II, while Germany was under Allied occupation. Which organization?

2. It is one of the tallest hills in the area (the third highest in fact). Named after the wife of Robert Christopher Tytler, a British soldier, naturalist and photographer, it was originally a site for a sanatorium for convicts. However, a murder close to the hill in 1872 led to the abandonment of such a plan. It is now a National Park and enthusiasts enjoy a trek to this place. Name this hill.

3. In 1991, Sanjeev Narula, a young graduate set up a small unit with 25 sewing machines in Delhi’s Govindpuri area. He employed four people and hired tailors on contract to take up fabrication work for exporters. It required an investment of USD 2,300 which came from his own savings and as a loan from his father. He closed 1990-91 with a turnover of USD 18,300 and it proved to be a turning point. From 25 sewing machines in a dingy workshop to five manufacturing units in Delhi/NCR, with over 4000 state of the art machines and over 8500 skilled workforce producing 1 million units per month, Sanjeev Narula's venture is all set to uphold its cult status in times to come.

4. The college motto is from Proverbs 3:35 in the Vulgate: Gloriam Sapientes Possidebunt, "wise shall possess glory." King Frederick VI , the King of Denmark granted a royal charter in 1827 that made the college a degree-granting institution. The founders, in the prospectus, proposed a new "College for the instruction of Asiatic, Christian, and other youth in Eastern literature and European science". Identify.

5. Govardhan and Kanwarjit are the first names of two FTII graduates, who achieved success in the Indian Film Industry (moderate success). However, they are known by their last names only. Identify.

Mind Game: Archive::QM:- Priyanka Mukherjee Part-1

1. X Y and Z are three of the most successful actors of their country. X was named Y(first name only) in a film directed by a blood-relative of Z. Y won a supporting actor filmfare for a film released the year before Z's film released for which he won a best actor filmfare. X acted in a film the following year where he was named (full name) after Y's most iconic character in the history of Indian films. Y had the same name in one of his earlier breakthrough hits. Y has been in maximum number of films in above mentioned Z's blood-relative directed filmography. Z was named (first name only) after X's most commercially successful film (in terms of net profit and length of run) character in two films. Y was also named (1st name)after X's most successful film's name (same as Z)in atleast two films.
Id- X,Y,Z.

2. CONNECT Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Farhan Akhtar and Meera Nair.

3. Which variety of Biriyani comes from a portmanteau of two Tamil words meaning Pillow and Rock, referring to the name of the town it originated in and around?

4. The opening lines of this song,probably one of the most recorded numbers in the last century,come from the poetry of Lucknow's last Nawab Wajed Ali Shah. K.L.Saigal popularised it in his film Street Singer,Jagjit and Chitra Singh sang it in Aavishkaar,strains of it are used as theme throughout Ravi Chopra's last directed film. There are recordings of this song in the voices of Ustad Faiyyaz Khan and Girija Devi amongst other notable singers. Song please?

5. "As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one..."
These are the opening lines of a short story, which regained popularity a few years back when it was made into a multi-academy award nominated drama starring one of the most celebrated and arguably hottest actors of our times. ID story and author.