3.
After a brief chat with The Beatles, X asked
John, Paul, Ringo, George, and Brian Epstein if they
wanted to smoke a joint. Epstein looked apprehensive
and said that the band hadn‟t tried marijuana for years. X
was immediately surprised because he had been under
the impression that they smoked weed because of the
song I Want to Hold Your Hand. He mistook the lyrics “I
can‟t hide” with “I get high.” The Beatles were never one
to back down from a new experience and agreed. Lennon
took the joint and passed it to Ringo whom he called his
“royal taster.” Ringo smoked the entire thing, not
knowing the tradition of sharing the joint between people.
In response, X rolled a joint for each of The Beatles and
they smoked.
7.
In 2220 A.D. mankind has conquered the solar system and is
reaching out into space. Earth is ruled by a World
Government, with headquarters in Delhi. Space stations have been
established on many planets of the Solar System. One of these
stations is a high security prison on Io, a moon of Jupiter. Here, the
twelve most dangerous criminals are held up in suspended
animation. Each one of them is an expert in their field. When a
meteorite strike hits the base, destroying its security system, these
criminals break free and escape. The Earth Government assigns its
top law enforcer, X, the mission to arrest these fugitives. X is the
son of one of the Earth's top scientists and the grandson of the ruler
of the Parajeevs from the thirteenth dimension, a race of beings ten
million years ahead of us in civilization. He was brought up in a
monastery in Ladakh, and he has yogic powers of concentration.
Apart from Y, who portrayed X in the series, Rahul Bose, Parizad
Zorabian and Tom Alter and Z portrayed other significant
characters.
10. Captain Vyom
X is Captain Vyom
Y is Milind Soman
Z is Madhu Sapre
11.
X drew inspiration from Chinese communist propaganda art
that they saw in art galleries on Melrose Avenue, and recruited
artist Chris Bilheimer, to create the cover. The band aimed for
the cover to be "at once uniform and powerful". After listening
to the new music on his computer, Bilheimer took note of the
lyric "And she's holding on my heart like a ____ _______“ and
somehow replicated it on the cover. Influenced by artist Saul
Bass's poster for the 1955 drama film The Man with the Golden
Arm, Bilheimer created it. Although he felt that red is the "most
overused color in graphic design", he felt that the "immediate"
qualities of the color deemed it appropriate for use on the
cover, explaining: "I'm sure there's psychological theories of it
being the same color of blood and therefore has the powers of
life and death...And as a designer I always feel it's kind of a
cop-out, so I never used it before. But there was no way you
couldn't use it on this cover."
15.
Apparently, X had a bad reputation for showing up
at Florentine ruler, Lorenzo de Medici's house every
time the doors opened and eating until they kicked
him out. Lorenzo wrote a witty rhyme punning on
his pet artist's name, concluding "He arrives a little
bottle and leaves a bottle full."
19. CONNECT(Exhaustive
with a few more)
'The party„
'The intern„
'The mystery of Two„
'The Birthday Bash„
'The interview„
'Double Trouble„
'Business AND pleasure„
'Double Trouble 2„
'Doctor Doctor„
'The Uncle's Visit„
'Cricket„
23.
The X, also known as Two Sons, Lost Son and The Running
Father is one of the parables of Jesus. It appears in only one of
the Canonical gospels of the New Testament. According to the
Gospel of Luke (Luke 15:11-32), a father, in response to his
demands, gives the younger of his two sons his inheritance
before he dies. The younger son, after wasting his fortune (the
word 'Z' means 'wastefully extravagant'), goes hungry during a
famine. He then repents and returns home, where the father
holds a feast to celebrate his return. The older son refuses to
participate, stating that in all the time the son has worked for
the father, he did not even give him a goat to celebrate with his
friends. His father reminds the older son that everything the
father has is the older son's, but that they should still celebrate
the return of the younger son as he has come back to them.
Dutch artist Rembrandt has also depicted this in one of his
noted paintings, The Return of the X.
27.
X was born on 7 October 1968, in
Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. At birth, his left eye
was fixed shut; the doctors determined that the eye was
paralyzed and that the condition was permanent. X's
parents took him to an eye specialist, who suggested a
muscle graft. X underwent five eye operations before he
was six years old. X‟s father, a chemical equipment
salesman, was hired by a firm in Scotland shortly after his
son's birth and the family lived there until X was seven.
During this time X had to wear a patch over his eye. He
has stated that the last surgery was "botched", giving him
a drooping eyelid. Who?
31.
For the first eight seasons almost every episode title
begins with the word "My". Notable exceptions are
the episodes entitled "His Story", "His Story II", "Her
Story", "Her Story II", "His Story III" and ''His Story
IV'„. These episodes each contained internal
narration from a character other than the lead
character. There is also "Their Story" in which we
hear the thoughts of three major characters. In "Their
Story II" the thoughts of 3 interns are followed.
Starting with season nine every episode title starts
with "Our“. Which Series?
35.
The original cover art angered some Hindus, who felt the
artwork (taken from Hindu imagery and altered by
giving the dancing figure a cat's head) was offensive. The
image depicts Lord Krishna (with a cat's head) dancing
on the head of the snake demon, Kāliyā, a popular
episode from Stefan Sagmeister's (designer of the cover)
childhood. The band had been unaware of the source of
the artwork, and the record company apologized, and
changed the artwork to a revised version. One of the
album's singles, won a Grammy for Best Rock
Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal in 1999.
39.
X, has a surprising predisposition to scientific theory and
discovery. His inventions gone awry help develop the
plots of many episodes. He is close friends with three
animals; a pig named Pig, a goat named Goat, and a
porcupine named Spiney who are capable of speech and
well learned in philosophy. Together, they form the
Philosophical Society, discussing such "great thinkers"
as Nietzsche, matters of existentialism, and the
relevance of time. X enjoys experiencing new things. To
name a few adventures, X made a video game for himself
in one episode and performed nude in a fashion show in
another (possibly an homage to "The Emperor's New
Clothes).
43.
Unfortunately for our vivid imaginations, no one
actually lived in the house – it was just a project
carried out by National Geographic. But for the first
time ever, National Geographic proved that the
world really can be as awesome as a cartoon, if you
throw enough money at it.
47.
The sword in P's hand carries an abbreviated
inscription H-AS OS; this has been interpreted as an
abbreviation of the Latin phrase Humilitas occidit
superbiam. In the painting, P is perturbed, "his
expression mingling sadness and compassion." The
decision to depict him as pensive rather than jubilant
creates an unusual psychological bond between him
and Q. The artist completes this bond by depicting
himself as Q.
51.
A blues song of anonymous authorship, “X” is a tale
of sin, sexual ruin and a tortured soul. The song has
been recorded by various artists including Bob Dylan
and Dolly Parton. Many debate the true meaning of
the title, arguing that it could be a euphemism for a
whorehouse, a jail, a slave plantation or a specific
establishment in the French Quarter. The most
famous version of the song was by the British-
Invasion-era band Y, who maintained it was an old
English folk song emigrants brought to America
(originally it was a Soho brothel instead of a New
Orleans one).
55.
X began as a small series of comics drawn by Kris Wilson
at the age of sixteen. Wilson was at home with strep
throat and had doodled some stick figure comics. On his
deviantART profile page, he notes that he "created X in
2004 because I can't help but draw stupid looking
characters to spew out my stupid ideas." One of the
earliest X comics, #15, was posted by Wilson on
Explosm.net on January 26, 2005.
A variant of the comic's title is first mentioned in #121, in
which one character sells cotton candy, and explains that
it is made of "X", after which the other character replies:
“_________!? Hot damn! I'll take 4“.
59.
X has recently come home from Y and is now almost back
to perfect health since the disaster, only she cannot get that
wonderful place out of her head. She frequently talks
about it and cannot get any sleep at night. Her aunt worries
about her health/well-being. Thinking that she is suffering
delusional depression and acute insomnia, she decides to
take her to see a special doctor in another town. While he
tries to treat her with electro-shock treatment and take
those nasty dreams away from her head, she is rescued by
a mysterious girl who leads her back to Y again.
63.
Apart from being a low-life, X was supposed to be
sexually frustrated as well because he could never
have sex with a women without killing her (a scene
involving X's explosive orgasm was actually cleared
by the MPAA, but removed from the final cut
because a test audience didn't find it funny). The
tone of the movie was made considerably lighter for
a summer release tailored for a wider audience, but
the MPAA still gave the film an R rating the first two
times they classified it, before edits involving
language and violence allowed it to receive a PG-13.
68. DIFFERENTIAL
+12 if only one team gets it
+10 if 2 teams
+8 if 3 teams
+6 if 4 teams
+4 if 5 teams
+2 if all get it
Bonus +10 if the team gets all slides
89.
San Giorgio Maggiore al Crepuscolo is an
Impressionist painting by Claude Monet. Painted in
1908, the piece gives an original view of San Giorgio
Maggiore. Focusing on the cathedral and bell tower
located on the coast of the island, the beauty of the
island at sunset is portrayed. However this painting
has been immortalized in pop culture by X in
1999, when it was “stolen” from the Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
96.
First of all, last episode.
Tom and Jerry Commit Suicide.
97.
X, world-weary, looks at the bust of blind, humble Y, on which
he rests one of his hands. This has variously been interpreted as
the man of sound, methodical science deferring to Art, or as the
wealthy and famous philosopher, wearing the jeweled belt
given to him by Alexander the Great, envying the life of the
poor blind bard.
The interpretation of methodical science deferring to art is that
X's right hand, in which he held notes in, traditionally the
favored hand, is on the bust of Y, is higher, and painted lighter
than the left hand on the gold chain given to him by Alexander.
The painting forms the central theme of Joseph Heller's 1988
novel “Picture This”.
100. X: Aristotle; Y: Homer
Aristotle contemplating a
Bust of Homer - Rembrandt
101.
The modern usage of the phrase refers to a Christian tradition
regarding Saint Peter. According to the apocryphal Acts of
Peter (Vercelli Acts XXXV), Peter is fleeing from likely
crucifixion in Rome at the hands of the government, and along
the road outside the city he meets a risen Jesus. Peter asks Jesus
“___ _____?", to which He replies, "Romam vado iterum
crucifigi." ("I am going to Rome to be crucified again"). Peter
thereby gains the courage to continue his ministry and returns
to the city, to eventually be martyred by being crucified upside-
down.
The Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz authored the well-known
novel ___ _____: A Narrative of the Time of Nero in 1895, which
in turn has been made into motion pictures several times.
105.
Although popular myth suggests that X padded his
cheeks with cotton wool to play Y, he did so only for
the audition. Before the actual filming began, he had
a mouthpiece specially created by a dentist. Only
once the special mouthpiece was made, did X start
filming.
109.
As critics have established, the term ‘X' referred to
dark-skinned people in general, used
interchangeably with similarly ambiguous terms as
'African', "Ethiopian', 'Negro', and even 'Indian' to
designate a figure from Africa (or beyond). X has
often been used for a literary character Y (as “The
X”) in Z‟s play of the same name. Y‟s origin is traced
to the tale "Un Capitano Moro" in Gli
Hecatommithi by Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio.
113.
After X‟s father died, his uncle raised him. His uncle was
in charge of 400 men in the king‟s cavalry and received
10,000 rupees a year. After his uncle‟s death, the British
took away the lands he owned and reduced the pension
to 3,000 rupees a year out of which X‟s share was 60
rupees. Being a member of declining Mughal nobility and
old landed aristocracy, he never worked for a
livelihood, lived on either royal patronage of Mughal
Emperors, credit or the generosity of his friends. His fame
came to him posthumously. He had himself remarked
during his lifetime that he would be recognized by later
generations. After the decline of the Mughal Empire and
the rise of the British Raj, despite his many attempts, X
could never get the full pension restored.
117.
“X" uses a sample of Brazilian jazz guitarist Luiz Bonfá's 1967
instrumental song "Seville", with additional instrumentations of beats
and a xylophone. It was written by Y himself, while in his parents'
barn. Y commented that he wrote the song "in quite a linear
way", explaining that "I wrote the first verse, the second verse and I'd
got to the end of the first chorus and for the first time ever I
thought, 'There's no interesting way to add to this guy's story'. It felt
weak".
Y stated that the song was "definitely drawn from various experiences
I've had in relationships breaking up, and in the parts of the more
reflective parts of the song, in the aftermath and the memory of those
different relationships and what they were and how they broke up and
what's going on in everyone's minds. Yeah, so it's an amalgam of
different feelings but not completely made up as such".
121.
All the books of this series are written
by ghost writers, as per customary to
Stratemayer Syndicate, the book
packaging firm to launch this series.
The Syndicate's process for creating
the books consisted of creating a
detailed outline, with all elements of
plot; drafting a manuscript; and
editing the manuscript.
The series has been been parodied in
the animated series South Park in an
episode titled "The Mystery of the
Urinal Deuce", in which the lead
characters from the book investigate
a 9/11 conspiracy theory.
125.
This slang term originated in about 1970. Although a
street term, it is virtually synonymous with the earlier
Latin phrase, „Mea Culpa'. The phrase came into
widespread popular use in the mid to late-1990s in the
USA via the 1995 movie “Clueless” starring Alicia
Silverstone.
Wielgus and A. Wolff's, 'Back-in-your-face Guide to Pick-
up Basketball', 1986: "______, an expression of contrition
uttered after making a bad pass or missing an opponent."
Which phrase ?
129.
The crazy thing about X's death is that he predicted it. As
he was born in 1835, the year of the final 19th century
apparition of Halley's Comet, he felt such a kinship with
the celestial body that he wanted his death to coincide
with it as well. He said,
"I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again
next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the
greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with
Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now
here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in
together, they must go out together.“
X died of a heart attack on April 21st, 1910, a day after the
comet's closest proximity to Earth.
133.
Tame by modern standards (though lyrically delicious), this is one
of the letters that was used to prosecute X on charges of obscenity.
"My Own Boy,
Your sonnet is quite lovely, and it is a marvel that those red-
roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of
music and song than for the madness of kissing. Your slim gilt soul
walks between passion and poetry. I know Hyacinthus, whom
Apollo loved so madly, was you in Greek days. Why are you alone in
London, and when do you go to Salisbury? Do go there to cool your
hands in the grey twilight of Gothic things, and come here
whenever you like. It is a lovely place and lacks only you; but go to
Salisbury first.
Always, with undying love,
Yours, X"
137.
The X gun was designed only for the film version.
When used on someone, it will cause them to see
things as the person firing it does (the Y says that it
"conveniently, does precisely as its name suggests").
According to the Y, it was commissioned by the
Intergalactic Consortium of Angry Housewives, who
were tired of ending every argument with their
husbands with the phrase: "You just don't get it, do
you?"
141.
X was born into a middle-class home in Bombay. She
first gained fame when a set of her pictures casually
taken by a well-known Bombay photographer were
used for a successful campaign for a popular soap
brand and eventually to X's becoming a model. She
entered and won the Miss India contest at 17. In 1997
she wrote and published a coffee table book, Pride of
India, which featured several former Miss Indias.
The book was dedicated to Mother Teresa, and part
of the royalties went to the Missionaries of Charity.
145.
“No More Games. No More Bombs. No More
Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67.
That is 17 years past 50. 17 More than I needed or
wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun – for
anybody. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age.
Relax – This won‟t hurt.”
149.
X is a 1979 Italian–American
biographical film directed by Tinto
Brass, with additional scenes
filmed by Giancarlo Lui and
Penthouse founder Bob Guccione.
X is considered the most expensive
adult film of all time. It starred
actors, Malcolm McDowell, Teresa
Ann Savoy, Y, Peter O'Toole and
John Gielgud. It was the first major
motion picture to feature both
eminent film actors and
pornographic scenes. It remains
one of the most infamous cult films
ever made and remains banned in
several countries to this day.
165.
Films in which the screenplay
has been adapted by authors of
their respective novels.
Or, The Author who wrote the
novel also wrote the screenplay
for the film.
