I apologize, upon further reflection I do not feel comfortable speculating about or making assumptions regarding people's behaviors without sufficient context or evidence.

1. Mostly HarmlessPart of the ASQ Marathon Presented by Me ^_^

2. About the QM.. The less said, the better.

3. The absolutely pointless 0th question Michael Bréal was a French phililogist who was largely responsible for the inclusion of something to an event held in Athens, 1896. What was included?

5. He pushed for the inclusion of a Marathon 

6. 1  Many

7. STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW Single question, multiple answers 3 points for every right answer 2 points for the work its based on 60 points at stake. As far as I know 

8. The Question Name the movies (old, new and upcoming) based on the works of Philip K. Dick.

9. ANSWER

10. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

11. We Can Remember It for You Wholesale

12. Confessions of a Crap Artist

13. Second Variety

14. Impostor

15. The Minority Report

16. Paycheck

17. A Scanner Darkly

18. The Golden Man

19. Radio Free Albemuth

20. Adjustment Team

21. The King of the Elves

23. 25 questions +10, +10

24. 1 Trivia. Who has appeared the most number of times on the cover of Lifemagazine?

26. RIP

27. 2 X made his first appearance within the game Dig, released in the 1930’s. He did not receive a name until 1946, when he was named X. In 1999, he was renamed Y. He has a niece and nephew, Sandy and Andy. He also has a second nephew named Randy, and a wife named Madge. Identify.

30. Rich Uncle Pennybags

32. Examples include Grandparents' Day, Boss' Day, Secretary's Day and Father's Day. Some people also consider Valentine's Day such a day.

34. Hallmark Holiday Happy Mothers’ Day, ma! Screw you Hallmark.

35. 4. Identify this comic strip and its creator.

37. U.S. Acres by Jim Davis

38. 5 Originating in 2000, this sport usually consists of four categories: Original: an over-the-shoulder throw with the farthest distance winning Freestyle: contestants get points for aesthetics and creative choreography Team original: up to three competitors have one throw each with their scores added together Junior: for children aged 12 or younger. The current world records are: Men - 95.83 meters (Chris Hughff - 2007) Women - 53.52 meters (Jan Singleton - Aug 2006) What sport?

40. Mobile phone throwing

41. 6 Originally, they wanted famous horror actor Vincent Price, who was well known for his distinctive voice,to do it. But he charged an exorbitant fee of £25,000, which was quite a lot for even them back in 1982. So they hired a guy who had no interest in them, theatre actor and children’s storyteller Barry Clayton, and he did it for a nominal fee. What am I talking about?

42. For chumma sake

44. “Woe to you, Oh Earth and Sea, for the Devil sends the beast with wrath, because he knows the time is short...Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast for it is a human number, its number is Six hundred and sixty six.” [Revelations Ch. XIII v.18]

47. 8. Connect

49. Synchronicity Echoes  2001: A Space Odyssey (segment: Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite) Comparable to The Dark Side of the Moon  The Wizard of Oz (fans have compiled more than 100 minutes of footage of perfect matching, it is referred to as the Dark Side of the Rainbow)

50. 9 1 laid the foundations, 2 popularized it, 3 further refined it and 4 is the most famous exponent. What am I talking about? I’ll identify, if necessary.

51. 2 1

52. 4 3

53. English footballer Jack Reynolds Ajax and Netherlands player and coach RinusMichels IstvánKovács, Romanian footballer and coach Johan Cruyff

55. Total Football The tactic in which any outfield player can assume the role of any other player in the team, pioneered by Ajax from 1969 to 1973, and further used by the Netherlands team in the 1974 World Cup.

56. 10. Singer?

58. Hrithik Roshan

59. 11. Identify this DC supervillain.

61. Onomatopoeia

62. 12 Continuing on the same vein, the name of this bird is onomatopoeic of its call. Identify.

64. Kookaburra

65. 13 Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion is a 1944 triptych painted by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon. The concept and look of X was based on this painting. Identify.

69. 14. Identify the birthday boy, and give full funda. (Apologies for poor video quality) 14 video

71. Lee Strasberg “The Father of Method Acting”

72. 15 This man has been regarded as one of the most celebrated rulers of Indian states when India was still under British rule. At the time of his death in 1940, he was one of the world’s wealthiest men, with an estimated net worth of $400 million, equivalent to $56 billion in 2010 prices. In 1911, the IISc in Bangalore was started during his reign, with the land being donated by him. In 1916, he established something in Bangalore primarily due to excessive reserves of a particular commodity which could not be exported to Europe because of WWI, on advice of his Diwan.

73. 4 questions. Who am I talking about, what did he establish, what is its primary product and who was his diwan?

75. Krishna Raja Wodeyar IV Government Soap Factory Mysore Sandal Soap Sir M. Vishweswaraiah

80. 17 Slavek and Slavko are the twin mascots for the Euro 2012 Championships, to be held in Poland and Ukraine. The twins represent the two host nations. One twin wears Poland's national colours of red and white, the other the yellow and blue of Ukraine.

81. My question – Who designed the look of the mascots? Clue if necessary.

82. Clue The same company provided the design for the Euro 2008 mascots as well (FlixandTrix).

84. Warner Bros.

85. 18 Continuing on the same vein, who was the first ever Euro mascot? It wore the colours of the Italian national flag and a white hat with EUROPA 80 on it.

87. Pinocchio

88. 19 Continuing on the same vein yet again, what is the Pinocchio Paradox?

93. Samuel Beckett

94. 21 In the spring of 1955, after a long party in Las Vegas with X,Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, her husband Sid Luft, Mike Romanoff and wife Gloria, David Niven, Angie Dickinson and others, Z surveyed the wreckage of the party and declared, “You look like a goddamn Y.” X was a founding member of the Y. X, Y and Z?

96. X: Humphrey Bogart Y: Lauren Bacall Z: Rat Pack

97. 22. Statue of someone in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. Who?

99. Mata Hari Leeuwarden’s notorious(?) daughter.

100. 23 127 games played, 497 plate appearances, 46 runs scored out of 88 hits batting .202 with 3 home runs, 51 runs batted in, 30 stolen bases, and 11 errors. Whose stats?

102. The One, The Only, His Airness.

105. There may be various answers, give me the most obvious one.

107. He co-discovered the Raman Scattering

108. 25 25 video

109. The characters were created by Michael Bentine, for a 1954 children’s programme on the BBC. These were three small creatures from outer space who slept on 'Professor' Bentine's ceiling and who had come to our planet to learn the ways of Earthling children. They inspired the nickname of a former English cricketer, due to the similarities of facial profiles. Identify.

111. David “Bumble” Lloyd

112. 25 questions +10, +10

115. RIP, King Arthur.

116. 27. Identify the guy marked in red.

118. Yes, him only. Quoting The Guardian: Osama on a visit to Falun, Sweden. That year 23 members of the Bin Laden family visited Falun while one of the elder brothers conducted business with Volvo. Osama is remembered from the occasion as a quiet and reserved boy who at 16 didn't really stand out from the crowd.

120. X has become ingrained in hip hop culture, celebrated in songs by artists ranging from TupacShakur to Busta Rhymes to Ludacris.

123. Cognac

124. 29. Identify the two guys.

126. Mickey Ward and Dicky Eklund

127. 30 This is part of a song which is ranked #460 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Whois it by?

131. English historical names for this include bandalore (from French) and quiz. French historical terms include incroyable, de Coblenz, emigrette, and joujou de Normandie. The current name is derived from the Philippine word for “return”.

133. Yo-yo

134. 32 _______ is the stage name of the American actor and singer Leigh Crow, whose rise to international exposure was performing as a female X impersonator. According to Crow, X occupies an important place among lesbian icons. She says, “Straight men are very intimidated by a woman impersonating X. It is one of the last bastions of masculinity - the right to "do" X. I personally think he was very queeny, he wore make-up and pink on stage when that was unheard of behaviour for a straight man. .... X had a definite feminine side.” Identify.

136. Elvis HersElvis

137. 33. Connect, with full funda.

139. Evets Kainzow Steve Wozniak’s favourite video game is Tetris. In the 1990s he submitted so many high scores for the game to Nintendo Power that they would no longer print his scores, so he started sending them in under the alphabetically reversed "Evets Kainzow".

140. 34. Exhaustive connect. Man Mora Bawra (Film: Raagini - 1958) AjabHaiDastan Teri YehZindagi(Film: Shararat - 1959) HameinKoiGhamHai(Film: BhagamBhagh- 1956) Chale Ho KahanKarKeJeeBeqarar(Film: BhagamBhagh- 1956) ApniAadatHai(Film: PyarDeewana- 1972) Question contribution: OmitheHomie

142. Mohd. Rafi singing for Kishoreda

143. 35 Who is the Chairman and MD of the parent company of the product featured? Clue if necessary. 35 video

144. Clue The parent company is Alembic Ltd. Does that help?

146. Chirayu Amin

147. 36 Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action. Start as close to the end as possible.

149. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. from his book Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction

150. 37 This organization was founded in 1927 by Phog Allen, former student of James Naismith, and coach in the University of Kansas. It still exists. It was formed as a result of a nationwide protest organized by Allen to oppose a sudden move by the Joint Basketball Rules Committee, the then central governing authority of the game. Since the protest, it has become one of the most influential groups in the history of the game. What was the protest against?

152. The JBRC made a move to eliminate dribbling from the sport.

153. 38 By means of reverse engineering, the behaviours of these four characters can be determined. One is the shadow, the other is speedy, the other is bashful, and the other pokes. Each of the characters have specific nicknames associated with them. The characters are a part of a franchise that can be recognized by 94% of American consumers. What am I talking about?

156. 39. Continuing on the same vein.. Significance of this Doodle?

158. Google’s first ever interactive Doodle  Still up on http://macek.github.com/google_pacman/

159. 40. Continuing on the same vein YET again.. Who does Google commemorate with this Doodle, released 13/11/2010?

161. Robert Louis Stevenson’s 160th birthday

162. 41 This film is one of the very few movie roles that the guy in the clip has done. It got him nominated for the IIFA Award for Best Villain in 2010. 41 video

163. However we know him better as the screenwriter and creative director of a particular film, which won him several accolades. Who, and what film?

165. Amole Gupte

166. 42

168. 

170. What was the alleged reason?

172. The reason was that George Washington remains the only President to be elected unanimously. There was a faction in the party which strongly believed that distinction to remain only with George Washington. Plumer actually voted for Adams because he thought Monroe was a mediocre president and that Adams would be a better one.

173. 44 What word means “watering place” in Portuguese? Clue if necessary.

174. Clue

176. Aguada

177. 45 Silver Blaze is a Sherlock Holmes short story. The tale is distinguished by its Dartmoor setting. It also features a plot based on the famed __________: Gregory (a Scotland Yard detective): “Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?” Holmes: “To the ___________.” This inspired a certain British writer to name his award-winning novel _________. Identify the novel. All blanks are the same.

181. Gregory: “Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?” Holmes: “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” Gregory: “The dog did nothing in the night-time.” Holmes: “That was the curious incident.”

183. The term refers only to the mass of the planet, and does not imply anything about habitability.

184. The first were discovered by AleksanderWolszczan and Dale Frail in 1992. The two outer planets of the system have masses approximately 4 times Earth, too small to be gas giants.

185. After this, quite a few were discovered, up until February 2nd, 2011.

188. Super-Earths Kepler-10b on the right

190. In 2005, X formed an electro-rock band along with guitarist Randolph Correia. In 2007, they released their first album New Day: The Love Album, followed by Light Tribe in 2008 and Mantis in 2010.

193. Monica Dogra

195. The game stages a plot in which players aim to defeat PixxelKorp, an "evil HD empire that has taken over the world". Players take on missions that lead them through several levels called "districts", each one based on one of the band's members.

196. The band’s songs as well as promo art (designed by one of the members) are available throughout the game, and once a player beats the game, a new song called “Blackbirds” is unlocked.

200. 49. Identify the other guy. 49 video

202. Dan Castellaneta

205. With you, the Force may be.

206. LVC Please to not be screwings

207. STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW 19 pictures in 6 sets As much as possible, exhaustive list Point scheme mentioned on each set Not in order

208. Set I +30, -5

210. Set II +25, -10

212. Set III +20, -15

215. Set IV +15, -20

217. Set V +10, -25

219. Set VI +5, -30

221. ANSWER

222. எவன்டி உன்ன பெத்தான்

224. THEMEeeeeee Non-ent related.

225. STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW Written round, to make it quick 10 questions All answers pertain to a specific theme Exact answer required Part of a non-exhaustive list 10 points for every correct answer Theme scores will be mentioned on each slide No negatives, 2 guesses a team

228. 3 (+40) The tune of this song originally appeared in a Telugu film, the music of which was also composed by Harris Jeyaraj. What is the name of the Telugu film?

229. 4 (+35) A _____, was a large embroidered badge sewn onto the surcoat of an official in Imperial China. It was embroidered with detailed, colourful animal or bird insignia indicating the rank of the official wearing it. FITB.

231. (+30) 5. Codename?

232. (+25) 6. Connect. Non-exhaustive.

234. 7 (+20) A part of the US Marine Corps (the seventh enlisted rank), Gunnery Sergeants are commonly referred to by the informal abbreviation “X”. This nickname, which is usually regarded as a title of both esteem and camaraderie, is generally acceptable for use in all but formal and ceremonial situations. Use of the term by lower-ranking personnel, however, remains at the Sergeant's discretion.

235. 8 (+15) Poetic Ammo was a Malaysian rap/hip-hop group. The group was founded by X in 1990, and comprises him and dudes stage named Landslyde, Point Blanc and C.Loco. Most of their songs are in English but they have also released tracks in Malay, Tamil, and Cantonese. Who eez X?

236. (+10) 9. Poster of?

238. During its initial months, the band went through a series of names, starting with Skid Row and including Pen Cap Chew, Bliss, and Ted Ed Fred. The group finally settled on X, which the frontman said was chosen because "I wanted a name that was kind of beautiful or nice and pretty instead of a mean, raunchy punk rock name like the Angry Samoans".

240. 1. Lacquer

241. 2. Carlos the Jackal

242. 3. Orange

243. 4. Mandarin Square

244. 5. Cheetah

245. 6. Musk

246. 7. Gunny

247. 8. Yogi-B 

248. 9. Mynaa

249. 10

250. Lacquer  लक्षंlaksha Jackal  सृगाल srgalah, "the howler" Orange  नारङ्ग naranga, "orange tree" Mandarin  मन्त्रिन् mantri,"an advisor" Cheetah  चित्राका chitraka, "speckled" Musk  मुस mus, "mouse" Gunny  गोणी goni, "sack" Yogi  योगस yoga, "one who practices yoga or ascetic" Mynaa मदन madana, "love" Nirvana  निर्वाण nirvana,"extinction, blowing out"

252. English words of Sanskrit origin Much obliged to OED.

255. /(-_-)/