1. Patch X is the second X of each month, the day on which Microsoft releases security patches in conjunction with the Microsoft Update. Exploit Y is the day just after Patch X, when exploit developers take advantage of the underlying vulnerabilities seen shortly after the release of a patch. What’re X and Y?
2. What term defining its root to the French word for “touched” and used in fencing as an acknowledgement of a hit by the fencer who is hit has also found momentum in popular culture with it being used to congratulate someone on a clever response to an argument?
3. Touted to have an yield equivalent to ten times the amount of all the explosives used in World War II combined, including Little Boy and Fat Man, the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, what is the nickname for the AN602 hydrogen bomb, developed and tested on October 30, 1961, in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago by the Soviet Union, the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, and currently the most powerful explosive ever detonated in human history?

Perplexing Queries – (General Round)

1. If the Red Ribbon is used as a symbol for AIDS awareness, what does a Yellow ribbon symbolize ?

2. Identify the two gentlemen .

3. Identify this structure.

4. In which Indian state did this art form originate?

5. Identify the Author.

6. Which organisation has the motto “Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation “?

7. Which place is it?

8. Identify this famous athlete.

9. What is the significance of this event in sports history?

10. What’s the significance of the letter below or who wrote it?

Dear Sir ,

I am arrive by passenger train at Ahmedpore station and my

belly is too much swelling with jack fruit. I am therefore went

to privy. Just I doing the nuisance, that guard making whistle

blow for train to go off and I am running with lotah in one hand

and Dhotie in the next when I am fall over and expose all my

shookings to man, female, women on platform. I am get leaved at

Ahmedpore station.

This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung, that dam guard

no wait five minutes for him. I am therefore pray your honour to

make big fine on that guard for public sake. Otherwise I am

making big report to papers.

Yours faithful servant,

11. Identify this bird.

12. Which famous phrase (clue: linked to creativity) originated from a puzzle where one has to connect 9 dots arranged in a square grid with 4 straight lines

drawn continuously, without your pen leaving the paper?

13. By what common name are the large bombs developed in the early years of World War II by the Royal Air Force known? They weighed around 4000 pounds and were carried by Wellington and Lancaster bombers on raids into Germany.

14. Which is the largest boneless animal?

15. Who is the author of “The Hacker’s Dictionary”?

16. “Yeh world hamara hain”. Is whose tagline?

17. Identify the structure and significance of the water body near it

18. Identify the trademark product associated with this movie.

19. Identify this artefact.

20. What is the significance of the Operation code named “Wrath of God” ?

ANSWERS

1. People whose loved ones are away from home fighting wars or displaced by conflict.
2. Richard Attenborough and his brother David Attenborough.
3. The Global Seed Vault in Svalbard ,Norway for surviving a nuclear Holocaust.
4. Manipur
5. Salman Rushdie
6. BBC
7. Hagia Sophia in Constantinople
8. Fernec Puskas, captain of the “Mighty Magyars”
9. Battle of Sexes– Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs
10. the reason why indian railways introduced toilets in trains
11. Cassowary
12. thinking out of the box
13. blockbusters
14. giant squid
15. Richard Stallman
16. indian idol
17. Temple of abu simbel
18. kanchipuram silk saris
19. buddha’s tooth at Kandy
    
20. MOSSAD eliminating the perpetrators of 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre