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This is the crest of the North East United FC club, part of the Indian Super League, launched in 2014. What do the 8 stars at the top represent?
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This is the crest of the North East United FC club, part of the Indian Super League, launched in 2014. What do the 8 stars at the top represent?
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In Oct 2014, during a visit to the Science Museum in London, the British monarch Queen Elizabeth II sent her first ever tweet, posting:
It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @ScienceMuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R.Signing off with 'Elizabeth R', what does the "R" stand for?"
1 - Following; 2 - Memento; 3 - Insomnia; 4 - Batman Begins (ok, this is a bit of a stretch!); 5 - The Prestige; 6 - The Dark Knight; 7 - Inception; 8 - The Dark Knight Rises; 9 - Interstellar
Whose stories, by a person who passed away in 2014, form the basis for all these films?
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Which fashion powerhouse?
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What word completes the title of the day?
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The noted designer Oscar de la Renta died in October 2014. In a tribute, a magazine wrote about how de la Renta overhauled the official uniform of a youth organisation's American chapter. This led to a new 'subdued' khaki colour scheme, fabric made of cotton and polyester, and olive khaki shorts and shirts.
Which organisation?
Flanagan once collaborated with the film director Baz Luhrmann on a 2008 film. Which film, whose one word title is the name of a country?
While the female version of this name made headlines in December 2012, the male version of this name made news in October 2014, owing to a major contribution of India's DRDO.
Which undaunted name?
Which force?
A nod to the business fact that New York produces the largest quantity of this item in the US, what food item is this?
Incidentally, a film based on this artist, though completed in 2008, has finally seen a mainstream theatrical release in 2014. Which artist?
Nick Holonyak Jr. got lucky with Red in 1962, five years later George Craford found out what makes it Green but it took 27 years to figure out how to make a Blue one. The 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics is a recognition to an effort that has given an energy efficient alternative and a soul to all the smart devices and laptops we use nowadays.
What invention has completed to this journey from Red to Blue?
This bird's scientific name is Upupa epops. What is common to the etymology of the order 'upupa' and the bird's name 'hoopoe'?
A group called Creative Trench released an "anti-imperialist" typeface (font) in July 2014 to commemorate the 60th birth anniversary of a former Latin American Head of State. This distinctive font is a digitized form of the Latin American leader’s handwriting in letters that he wrote while in prison on charges of a failed coup attempt in 1992.
So who has this ‘anti-imperialist’ typeface dedicated to him?
"The Imitation Game" is a 2014 British film. This term refers to a test devised to, given an unseen man and woman, to try and identify who was of which gender. A further modification of this test is now better known, and is named after the person who proposed this test.
This person is also the subject of this film - who is the person?
In India, these signs occupy 40% of the available space. However, as per a new directive issued in Oct 2014 by the Indian Ministry of Health, these could now become as high as 85% in India, making India the largest implementer in terms of space used. Thailand also uses 85% and Australia being 82.5%.
What is this about?
Which product, that began sales in the US in Oct 2014, has been the subject of such social media hashtags such as "#bendgate" and "#hairgate", the latter supposedly being faced by men with long beards, and most women?
In Oct 2014, the British TV series "Top Gear" team were forced to leave this country where they were shooting. Angry crowds had thrown stones at them, and 'certain veterans' held strikes outside their hotel. This fuss was over the number plate of the team's Porsche, which read "H982 FKL".
Which country, and what was the problem?
What is this list about?
It also acquired another name in the Western media, the "_______ Revolution", because many protestors starting using a piece of household equipment to protect themselves against tear gas used by police. What is the missing word?
This is an example of a "yantra", a diagram considered to have special symbolisms and powers in Eastern traditions. This served as the inspiration for a new symbol, an 8-pointed star, along with a brand name in Asia that stands for something without limits.
What from the world of travel is this, which was unveiled in August 2014?
What will be unusual about this conference?
What form of victory?
This documentary is based on the life of Aaron Swartz, a programmer and activist, who died in 2013. Swartz committed suicide after a likelihood of spending time in prison for an offence involving the alleged piracy of academic articles.
The film gets its name from a quote by Quinn Norton, a journalist who had dated Swartz, who said: "He was the _____'s own boy... and the old world killed him."
Complete the blank.
17 entries made up the line-up for the first Q.IZ contest, where we asked participants to send in questions on the theme of either "Ice" or "Bucket". Some interesting, some new, some funny, and some plain unrelated questions came our way.
Here are our top 3, prize-winning entries:
By Anindita Ravikumar
Real Xs are able to conduct heat and are actually one of the best conductors of heat. Even as a X heats up, it is cool to the touch, much like ice. Once this ability was discovered, Xs were quickly identified as "ice" and heat conductivity quickly began to be a way to determine whether or not a X was real. What is X?
comment: we liked this question because this was a nice little fact that we didn't know before. It would have been better if the framing was not taken verbatim from its source, but we'll overlook it this time
In the poem 'Line-Up for Yesterday: An ABC of Baseball Immortals' by Ogden Nash , he (Nash) dedicates each letters of the alphabet to an iconic Major League Baseball player. The poem pays tribute to 24 players, and the final stanza includes tribute to the players collectively.
Who is referred in the poem by the letter G?
comment: this talks about a well-known connection to the ice bucket challenge in a fresh way
This (photo from a) Ice-Bucket video still shows siblings Lucy, Tim and Robert taking up the challenge. In fact, they had 'volunteered' instead of their father who had earlier said: "Because I had pneumonia last year, it would not be wise for me to have a bucket of cold water poured over me."
What is the surname of the siblings?
comment: this would easily fit into the main IZ stream, a nice little current affairs nugget
All the winners will receive Flipkart vouchers from Choose To Thinq in a week's time. Congratulations!
Special mentions: entries by Abhishek Veeraraghavan and Sanasi Kelkar.
October's theme is "Mars".
We turned 4 today, by the way. Thanks for all your time and support.
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