Alohamora!
Shashi Tharoor-isms!
Really?
Heteronyms
Poetry for Physics
A CONTESTANT WALKS INTO A "BAR"
Listen and name
200
The real half-blood prince
Snape
200
You freaked me out by saying I had sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia instead of just calling it a this treat "headache"!
ice cream headache
200
An atomic bomb test in 1945 made Oppenheimer think of a line from this famous Religious epic
Bhagavad Gita
200
A physical thing
&
to express disapproval
object
200
A poem in "The Da Vinci Code" alludes to the fact that an apple is not depicted on this British physicist's tomb
Isaac Newton
200
System of exchanging goods or services without using money
Barter
200
Name the song
Smoke on the water
400
The famous wandmaker
Olivander
400
Somniloquy is talking while doing this, & while I'm not a doctor like you, I don't think it requires an EEG
sleeping
400
In movies like "enemy of the state", "Live free to Die Hard", "True lies" etc that are set in Washington DC, filmmakers show visuals which represent a common topographical error associated with a Federal Law dating back to 1910.
What is the mistake? Sample from "Live Free or Die Hard" below.
No skyscrapers are allowed in the city of D.C.
400
To feel bitter
&
transmitted again
re-SENT
400
Note the cat in the depiction of him, whose writing made a friend say, "I hope your physics is better than your poetry"
Schrodinger
400
A decompression chamber can also be called this kind of chamber
Hyperbaric chamber
400
Identify the song:
Comfortably Numb
600
Daily Double
Hercule Poirot or Dark Arts?
Kenneth Branagh
600
Daily Double
sublime distillation of the daily renewal of the universe
a sun rise
600
Lafayette college was the first to teach this subject in 1855, followed by Harvard in 1858. However, beacons of education like Oxford and Cambridge had dedicated professors and courses only from 1904 and 1917 respectively.
What subject are we talking about?
English Literature
600
Closely packed together
&
a small makeup case
compact
600
This Scottish physicist was the brain behind 4 pioneering equations in electromagnetic fields and was also renowned to be a famous poet.
James Maxwell
600
In reinforced concrete, it's what does the reinforcing
Rebar
600
Identify the song:
Why this kolaveri di?
800
The name of Ron's pet rat
Scabbers
800
We are all here partaking of these or doing this (name one)
Comestibles or Confabulation
800
Mark Twain observed that this city "is older than history, older than tradition, older than legend and looks twice as old as all of them put together"
Varanasi
800
Something that pulls a vehicle behind it
&
a tall, narrow building
a tow-er
800
In the poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Byron refers to this 16th century Italian physicist and astronomer, with the phrase "with his woes"
Galileo
800
Tanzania gets part of its name from this island
Zanzibar
800
Name the song:
Stairway to Heaven
1000
The shape of Hermione Granger's Patronus
An otter
1000
If a specific person in this group (fluent in all sports and all languages!) starts singing, some people may leave abruptly or in a rush
They may Absquatulate – To leave abruptly or run away.
1000
The Belgian national soccer team got a new uniform in 2024 pictured below:
Who is this a tribute to?
Tintin
1000
A burrowing insectivore
&
a Mexican cooking sauce
a mole
1000
Daily Double
This Danish physicist said that when it comes to atoms, "Language can be used only as in poetry"
Niels Bohr
1000
You eat the red stalks of this plant; the green leaves are toxic
Rhubarb
1000
Name the song:
Waka Waka