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1. The knight piece popped out of the screen and tumbled down. He followed it to the basement. He fell down and the next thing he knew, he was in QUIZZYLAND (the land of "FunTrivia"). Marty found a metal door which was pass code (single digit) protected. The only clue given was that the code was the sum of digits the year in which the strange place he was in, was created. What is the pass code?
2. After passing the gate he found four animals in four cages. A sign read: "Release the critter without which the discovery of the Fibonacci Series would have been impossible, and follow it." Marty was good at maths but was not good at its history. The animals are given below. Which one should he release?
3. Marty followed the animal. It lead him to a giant creature which he recognised as a sphinx. The sphinx said "I will ask you a famous riddle asked by another sphinx to Oedipus long ago, but with a twist." and asked "A creature in the morning goes on X legs, at mid-day on Y, and in the evening upon Z, and the more legs it has, the weaker it be. What is X*Y*Z?" Marty knew that the answer to the original riddle was MAN, but he doesn't remember the original riddle.
4. The sphinx opened a portal. Marty jumped into it. He found himself standing beside a large monument called "Mitad del Mundo" in Ecuador. Near it was a door which was again pass code protected like the first one. The clue here was: "If the the latitude of this monument is X and its longitude is Y, then the pass code is (Y^X)." He reminded himself the derivation of the name of the country. What is the pass code?
5. He passed through the door and found himself standing in front of Mount Rushmore. Four famous presidents of the United States of America, carved into the face of a mountain. A tourist guide approached Marty and said "You want to get out of here? Then go up the nasal cavity of the president whose famous speech starts with the number 87". Marty was clueless. But then the answer struck him. He ran up to the statue of ____________ and then climbed up his nasal cavity. (Fill in the blank).
6. The cavity lead to a tunnel. When he reached the other end he was in the Parthenon in Greece. A beautiful lady approached him, and recited a pangram in the native language. Just when he was about to flirt with her, she disappeared and a scholar appeared. He gave him a dial and asked him to set the dial to the number of distinct letters in the sentence she recited. All Marty knew was that "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" was a pangram in English. To what number should he set the dial?
7. The dial turned into a wormhole. Marty hopped into it. After a short para dimensional journey, he found himself standing inside 221B Baker Street. An arrow pointed to the floor above. But the stairs were missing. A sign read: "The stairs will appear if you tell the right number of stairs supposed to be here?" Marty tried to remember who lived in 221B, Baker Street. What is that number?
8. After climbing up the stairs, he entered a room which was surprisingly a movie theater. The movies "Ben-Hur", "Titanic" and "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" were played. Marty couldn't believe that he just watched three movies back to back. Suddenly out from the screen came a golden man on a film reel carrying a crusader sword and pointed it at Marty and asked him "Which number is somehow related to all the three movies you just watched?". Which of the following describes the number? (Hint: A palindromic number reads the same when read from both ends.Also this question has only one correct answer)
9. After answering that, the floor under him collapsed. He was standing in some giant room with strange stuff written on the floor, some of which he remembers seeing in the chemistry lab. There was man standing nearly at the end of the room. Marty rushed to him. The man started talking. "Hi! I am Dmitri Mendeleev. You are standing on an enlarged version of my noble work. If you want to leave, go to the element named after me, find the digit sum of the atomic number of the element and then go to the element whose atomic number corresponds to what you have found or you could stay here an appreciate my work." Which element should Marty go to?
10. Marty rushed to the element. When he stood on the box, it started rising. He found himself standing in a large room with a checkered floor and had huge statues. He was shocked to find it was a chess board and coincidentally it was in the same scenario of the match he was playing in the computer. He mounted the black knight. The black knight and white king were at opposite ends and in the same line. The only other white piece was a pawn, and its movements does not pose any threat to the black side. What is the minimum number of moves required to check the king if he is pinned (the king is not checked but cannot be moved)?
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