Quizmaster
Harish S
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The event X marked the freedom of 30 crore slaves.
The event was first reported on air the next day by Y in his
trademark style. He also translated a world famous speech
to tamizh on his report.
 His thoughts after the report
“As a news reader I am not supposed to feel any lump on
the throat at all. So, I controlled my feelings till I finished
the bulletin. Later I cried with joy”
 Y was also known for his remarkable performance and
dialogue delivery in plays and films.
 He acted in popular movies like Moondraam Pirai, Thillu
Mullu, Mahanadhi, Varumayin Niram Sivappu and
Thamizhan
ID X and Y. No part points.
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X- Indian Independence
Y- Poornam Viswanathan
Who is blanked out?
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Hip Hop Aadhi
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Kerala- Milma
Bihar- Sudha
AP-Vijaya
Orissa-Omfed
Rajasthan-Saras
Punjab-Verka
Uttaranchal-Aanchal
Tamilnadu-??????
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Aavin
Whose ID tag?
Made in 1995, _____ came to Japan in 1998. At Cinema Rise in Tokyo's trendy
Shibuya district, it attracted more than 127,000 viewers in a 23-week run, netting
the theater about $1.7 million--its biggest gate of the year. "It was the 'Titanic' of
the art theaters," says Atsushi Ichikawa, “_____'s" Japanese distributor. "Forget
about the recession," urged a flier for “_____." "Forget about the millennium. Get
rid of your worries... This is the first page of a pleasant dream that will continue
for the rest of your life."
 Japan's masala fascination began in 1996 at a video shop in Singapore's Little
India. Japanese film critic Jun Edoki, visiting the store, asked a clerk to
recommend a sampling of Indian movies. _____ was among the films he carried
back to Japan, and when Edoki sat with his wife to view it in Tokyo, they were
mesmerized. "It was absolutely fascinating--even without subtitles," he recalls.
"We became addicted to the point where we had to see at least part of the film at
least once a day. So far, nearly 500,000 Japanese have paid to see _____ either
on the big screen or on video. It premieres on satellite television in June.
 Newsweek reported that X, the male lead in “_____" has supplanted Leonardo
DiCaprio as Japan's trendiest heartthrob .
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ID X and FITB.
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X-Rajinikanth
Film: Muthu
The ‘immortal’ X is in love with a ‘golden angel’.
Physically separated, and economically
downtrodden, their love is full of problems.
The litmus test of their love comes when X is held
hostage at a place far from home.
But X literally ‘rises up’ for his love and walks miles to
reach out to his golden angel.
Said to be as the tale of human survival spirit, critics
find similarities of it with a tale of rose named Y.
X and Y enadhu?
Hint: This is a movie question.
Quote Unquote:
“I started when I was six. My mother taught me. I joined
the club in India and we moved to the Philippines for a
year. And there they had a TV program that was on in
the afternoon, one to two or something like that,
when I was in school. So she would write down all the
puzzles and in the evening we solved them together.
So we solved all these puzzles and sent in our answers
together. And they gave the prize of a book to the
winner. And over the course of many months, I won so
many prizes. At one point they just said take all the
books you want, but don't send in any more entries.”
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Vishwanathan Anand
The existence of the band X was secret until May 2011.Mick Jagger,
English musician and the lead vocalist of rock band The Rolling Stones,
announced its formation on 20 May 2011.
 The name of the band is said to be inspired by Muhammad Ali.
 The group began recording their self-titled debut album in early 2009 at
a studio in Los Angeles. They recorded about 35 hours of music, with
some songs originally lasting "an hour and 10 minutes" before they were
whittled down. Mick Jagger sings in Sanskrit on "Satyameva Jayathe”
 Band members
Dave Stewart – Lead Guitar
Mick Jagger – Vocals, Guitar & harmonica
Damian Marley – Vocals & Programming
Joss Stone – Vocals.
Y – Piano, synthesizers, continuum fingerboard, Vocals, Drum programming
Give me X and Y.
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X-Superheavy
Y-AR Rahman
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Minimalist Lyrics
5 Questions. Take Chances.Make Guesses.
Write down the answers in the sheet
provided.
10 points for each right answer plus
10*(No.of teams that didn’t answer) points
No negs
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Exchange your sheets.
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“Aayiram Sooriyan Suttalum” aka
“Nenje Ezhu”
- Mariyaan
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“Neruppe sikki mukki neruppe”
-Vettaiyaadu Vilayaadu
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“Paramasivan kazhuthilirunthu paambu
ketadhu”
-Sooriyagaandhi
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“Nirpadhuve Nadapadhuve Parapadhuve”
-Bharathi
5)
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“Thenpaandi Seemaiyile”
-Nayagan
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All old Tamizh documents used to carry X in the
manuscripts. The reasons for the usage of X is generally
attributed to:
1) A way to indicate the day (like we write the date on
top left/right of our pages), but later lost the numerals.
2)Attributing it to the Lord , implying the day belongs to
the Lord, and it will hence be good.
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The most widely accepted reason is:
Using X helped people identify good palm leaves to
write on. The ones on which they couldn't draw the ‘X'
comfortably were discarded. This habit persisted and is
still followed as a tradition albeit without any specific
use.
X? And why using X helps identify good palm leaves to write?
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Pillayar Suzhi
With the curves and lines represented in the
Pillayar Suzhi, we can write any Tamizh
alphabet.
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Researches in Applied Linguistics suggest
that Tamizh and Japanese are similar in more
ways as they belong to the same Ural Altaic
language group.
Researches also suggested that Tamil and
Japanese cultures too have several things in
common. One cited example is the chanting
of ‘honga honga’ during the Japanese harvest
festival Ko Shogatsu.
What is the similar Tamil Chant?
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“Pongalo Pongal”
FYI Ko Shogatsu is celebrated on January 14
as well!
Connect.
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Vaaranam Aayiram
10 verses in Naachiyaar Thirumozhi written
by Aandaal is called Vaaranam Aayiram
Surya’s Vaaranam Aayiram contains a scene
where the first verse of the poem is recited in
the last scene of the movie.
Vaaranam means elephant
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According to legend, there was a ruler who once
went on a hunting expedition. After a long day,
he felt remorse as he realized the futility of
hunting. His minister suggested that he take to
singing instead and spreading the message of
peace as a pastime. The enthusiastic king
wanted to start straightaway and the minister
suggested that he use a bow and arrow to create
rhythms. And he followed his advise.
What is this incident considered the origin of?
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Villu Paatu
The following is an excerpt from Contemporary
Engineering Sciences, Vol. 2, 2009, no. 10, 497 - 505
Abstract :
Wideband speech signals of the _______of 3 males and 3
females were coded using an improved version of Linear
Predictive Coding (LPC).The sampling frequency was at 16
kHz and the bit rate was at 15450 bits per second, where
the original bit rate was at 128000 bits per second with the
help of wave surfer audio tool. The quality of the
performance is exhibited through the block diagram voice
coder. In the last section, the tradeoffs between the bit
rate for a plain LPC vocoder and the bit rate for a voiceexcited LPC vocoder with DCT is analyzed.
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Experimental Results:
The variation of the Spectrum section plot in LPC is measures for
the _________ is analyzed with the following
• Analysis type: LPC
• Analysis order: 20
• Speech signal bandwidth B = 8 kHz
• Sampling rate Fs = 16000 Hz (or samples/sec.)
• Channel: All
• Window type: Hamming
• Window length (frame): 512 points (20ms)
• Number of predictor coefficients of the LPC model=18
 The conclusion of this analysis was:
It is observed from voice excited LPC with Wavesurfer tool, there
is a variation in magnitude of the _______ among different people.
To strengthen the results, more samples could collected from
TamilNadu, Srilanka and Malasiya in future.
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Waveform of ____________
Spectrum of __________
FITB.
This is the speech
processing of the tamizh
letter ‘zha’ with LPC
One Mr.Sabapathy informed his fiancee Indrani that he has
invented something,which will reduce the time & effort
spent on some daily chores considerably.
As promised, he gave her the Gift after the marriage.
His Invention was an immediate hit in his locality.
Sabapathy and his brother Shanmugam, were also running a
Film Projector service shop at NH Road,Coimbatore in late
1950s.
He started a business of mass production of his invention as
well. Coimbatore became a hub for production of this item
after that.
What was that invention ??
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Coimbatore Wet Grinder
Ek Tha Jungle is an animated TV series aired on Disney
Channel. The 11 minutes each animal fables are laced
around strong ethics and family values with a moral that is
applicable to the present and future generations. The
show is modeled on a literary work _______.
 Accel animation studios head had this to say about the
show:”The biggest Challenge in entertaining children lies
in content. While there are a lot of stories from the west,
we wanted to offer Indian content with universal appeal.
_______is an international subject and it is not for adults
alone. Like Aesop’s fables and the Panchatantra tales, the
______ too can be used to entertain children since they
love conflict and its resolution.”
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Ulaga Podhumarai
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X is a unique kind of Tamil Poetry constructed
such that the last word of each verse
becomes the first word of the next verse.
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Usually written in praise of the Lord, this
unique form of poetry truly makes a garland
of verses.
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X?
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Andhaadhi
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Pick your poison
6 topics for 6 teams
Team with lowest points will get to choose
first and so on.
+30/-10 points for answering straightaway.
+20/0 points for answering after a hint.
Questions won’t be passed. If unanswered, it
will go as an audience question.
Movies
Literature
Political
Techie
Quote
Unquote
Etymology
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Ellis R. Dungan (11 May 1909 - 1 December 2001) was an American film
director, who was well known for working in Indian films, from 1936 to
1950.He was an alumnus of the University of Southern California and
moved to India in 1935.
Dungan had no knowledge of Indian languages, a problem which never
affected his career as a director of films in Indian languages. He
introduced many new techniques to Indian cinema despite the technical
limitations of that period.
Many of his movies were based on the mythical characters of the Hindu
religion and he had to shoot them in Hindu temples where non Hindus
were not allowed. Dungan filmed his movies in the temples by passing
himself off as a Kashmiri pundit.
Dungan is credited with introducing modern make-up, the mobile
camera and cabaret dance numbers to Tamil Cinema and moving it away
from the influence of stage plays.
He is also credited with something that would be part of a historically
significant milestone, one that would change the face and scenario of
Tamilnadu for years to come. WHAT IS IT?
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He introduced MGR in Tamil Cinema by
directing his first film Sathi Leelavathy
The following verse from Thirumandhiram formed the
inspiration of the title for a critically acclaimed movie
dealing with love, spirituality and communism.
 “ X Y இரண்டென்பர் அறிவிலார்
X Y ஆவதாரும் அறிகிலார்
X Y ஆவதாரும் அறிந்தபின்
X Y அமர்ந்திருந்தாரர!”
The english translation is:
“The ignorant think of X and Y as different.
They don’t know that X becomes Y.
After they realise that X becomes Y
Then truly X sits as Y”
XY Is the Movie title.
Which Film?
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Main
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The following is a verse from Kurunthogai.
“டகாங்குரதர் வாழ்க்கக அஞ்சிகற தும்பி
காமம் டசப்பாது கண்ெது டமாழிரமா
பயிலியது டகழீ இய நட்பின் மயிலியல்
டசறிடயயிற் றரிகவ கூந்தலின்
நறியவும் உளரவா நீ அறியும் பூரவ”
Originally written as a solution to a Riddle posed by a
Pandya King Soodamanipandyan, the literary
meaning and the implied conclusion of the poem
came under severe criticism from a person X in the
court of the king.
 The poem is also very special in the history of Tamil
literature owing to its foreign authorship.
 ID X and the author of the verse.
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This is the poem given to Dharumi by Lord
Shiva himself as a solution to the King’s riddle
of “Does women’s hair have a natural
fragrance?” implying yes as an answer.
 Came under criticism from X:Nakkeeran as he
believed otherwise taking a firm stance
claiming:
“டநற்றிக்கண் திறப்பினும் குற்றம் குற்றரம”
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The poets X and Y are famous for their notorious word fights throughout
their times.
In one instance X pretended to ask a riddle to Y but humiliated her by
using the word ‘dee’ in his question which is considered derogatory. The
riddle is “Oru kaaladi Naalilai Pandhaladi” meaning “What has one foot
and four roofs?” He had used the word “dee” as a pun to also mean the
foot.
Y knew of X’s intentions and answered”
எட்ரெகால் லட்சணரம எமரே றும்பரிரய
மட்டில் டபரியம்கம வாகேரம முட்ெரமற்
கூகரயில்லா வரெ
ீ
குலராமன் தூதுவரே
ஆகரயொ டசான்ோ யொ?
which meant “You disfigured beauty, You buffalo, You donkey-The mount
of Moodhevi, you roofless wall, You monkey - the messenger for Lord
Rama. How dare you address me like that?” and in the process of
satiating her anger, also answered the riddle.
 X and Y yaaru? And also give me the anwer to the riddle.
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X-Kambar
Y-Avvaiyaar
The answer is “Aarai keerai”
Main
“Tamil is us. Take a bow and try to know a little bit about the great language, culture,
the history of their literature and the social upheavals they have passed through.
You will wonder what kept you so distant from the wealth of knowledge and
Indian-ness. No other society in India has passed through such turmoil as Tamils
in the past one hundred years, and no other society has seen such unexplainable
ignorance from other Indians about their pains and dreams.
When I say Tamil, I speak for all Indian languages which are facing a ‘never before’
challenges due to the overwhelming and largely unwarranted influence of
English. My Tamil friend lamented the other day that his kids can’t pronounce or
recognise Tamil numerals.
Newspapers are full of English words, some even use the Roman letters in their
titles. Stories of Chola kings, Thiruvalluvar’s classical literature, MS
Subbulakshmi’s divine music, tales of Tamil valour, scholarship, splendid
achievements in arts and culture are read more by foreigners in Singapore in
printed coffee table books than in ‘fast forward’ Tamil homes. Recognising Tamil
is to salute and internalise that diversity with a vigour that secures India’s distinct
civilisational colour.
Say Vanakkam to Tamil and it will be instantly translated as a Vande Mataram to
Mother India.”
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That was an excerpt from a speech given by
X. Gimme X.
X made history by becoming ‘the first person’
to do so by delivering this speech. What?
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X-Tarun Vijay, Rajya Sabha MP from
Utharkhand
He is the first person outside Tamilnadu to
demand national status for Tamizh in
Parliament.
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Tamilnadu and Karnataka share a long history of
disputes and strained relationships due to issues
related to sharing of Kaveri water and
Hogenakkal water supply power project.
In 2009, the then Chief Ministers M.Karunanidhi
and B.S.Yediyurappa came to a consensus and as
an effort to bolster ties and signify goodwill
between the two states, did something which
was welcomed alike both by people and media.
What?
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Tiruvalluvar statue was unveiled
in Ulsoor, Bengaluru by Tamil Nadu Chief
minister M. Karunanidhi.
Sarvajna statue has been unveiled
in Ayanavaram park, Chennai by Karnataka
Chief Minister B. S. Yediyurappa
Main
பதிப்பி "வணக்கம், விதி விகளயாட்டுக்கு வருக!"
# ஒவ்டவாரு முகற ஒரு புதிய விகத ரதகவ
seed( 1729 + 500*random() )
எண் = randint(1,100)
# 10 வாய்ப்புககள டகாடுக்க
வாய்ப்பு = 0
@( வாய்ப்பு < 10 ) வகர
பதிப்பி "நான் என் எழில்மிக்க இதயத்தில் எண் [1-100] ஒன்று நிகேக்கிரறன்"
பதிப்பி "என்ே நான் நிகேக்கிரறன் டதரியுமா?“
guess = உள்ள ீடு ( "Guess/யூகிக்க >>" )
வாய்ப்பு = வாய்ப்பு + 1
#பதிப்பி ( எண் == guess )
#பதிப்பி எண்
@( எண் == guess ஆோல்
பதிப்பி "வாழ்த்துக்கள்! சரியாே பதில்"
exit(0)
முடி @( எண் < guess ) ஆோல்
பதிப்பி "உங்கள் உள்ள ீடு அதிகமாக உள்ளது"
இல்கல
பதிப்பி "உங்கள் உள்ள ீடு குகறத்து உள்ளது“
முடி
பதிப்பி "இன்னும் " பதிப்பி ( 10 - வாய்ப்பு )
பதிப்பி "வாய்ப்புக்குள் மீ தமுள்ளே முடி"
முடி
பதிப்பி "மன்ேிக்கவும் : 10 வாய்ப்பு முடிக்க முடியவில்கல!“
exit( -1 )
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This is a sample program. What is the name of this programming language?
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Ezhil
The following is taken from a newspaper article.
"The other browsers that can be downloaded from the ______ site
are a mix of English and the regional language. Our focus in Tamil
Translation was to find the easiest possible translation for every
English word on the browser, in Tamil," said Arun Prakash, an
engineering graduate associated with the ______Tamil Translation
team, in the article.
 In the Tamil _______ , the options are "kopu" for file, "viruppangal"
for preferences, and "nagal yedu" for copy, among others.
 "There is no need for a Tamil keyboard, as the keyboard shortcuts
will be the same. Settings, history, tools or download instructions
will be in Tamil, and the browser will lead you to the Tamil version
of the website you are looking for, if one exists,“
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What is blanked out?
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Mozilla
Main
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“I am not a very 'Tamil' person.
I am not a big reader.
Thanglish was my medium of Instruction throughout my
school.So my English is not that great too.
I am not a poet.
Whenever some one asks me for a poem for a magazine, I
tell them this. 'I am not a poet'.
The instant question they ask is ‘Then how do you write
lyrics?'
I find it extremely difficult to explain it to them that you
need not be a poet to write lyrics.”
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Which famous lyricist said this?
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Madhan Karky
The name of his lyric engineering system is
‘Karky’
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"No sentence can begin with because because,
because is a conjunction.”
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CN Annadurai
Main
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In his book "Entry from backside only: Hazaar
fundas of Indian English" journalist Binu K
John talks about a bridge in Mylapore area in
Chennai whose original name was Hamilton
Bridge. Today it is known as Barber bridge. As
per the book, how did this metamorphosis
happen?
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Hamilton when transliterated to Tamil
became Ammultan, then got corrupted to
Ambattan which is Tamil for barber. Then
finally got translated back to English,
becoming Barber Bridge
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This is a richly flavored soup, spiced with
curry powder and served with a dollop of
tangy sour cream.
This curry flavoured soup is of Anglo-Indian
origin, and its name translated literally from
Tamil means “pepper water”, although the
dish that Anglo-Indians call “pepper water” is
closer to Rasam than this dish.
Name the soup boys :P
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Muligatawny
Taken from the tamizh “Milagu Thaneer”
Main
Lord Macaulay’s address to the British Parliament on 2nd Feb
1835:
“I have travelled across the lengths and breadths of India and
I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief
such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral
values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would
ever conquer this country unless we break the very
backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural
heritage and therefore I propose that we replace her old
and ancient education system,her culture,for if the Indians
think that all that is foreign and English is good and
greater than their own, they will lose their self
esteem,their native culture and they will become what we
want them, a truly dominated nation”