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PRELIMS WITH ANSWERS
Question numbers 1,5,10,15,20 are star-marked

*1) Name the tournament.
Club Number of times they have won the title
X 37
Y 29
Z 11
Dalhousie 4
Durham Light Infantry 3
Black Watch 2
Gordon Light Infantry 2
King’s Regiment 2
N Staffordshire Regiment 2
Royal Irish Rifles 2
Scottish Borderers 1

Answer: Calcutta Football League

2)What’s the good word?/ Id X.
■ X is a genus of rhizostome jellyfish with only
one known species X reiki, found off the
central eastern coast of Australia.
■ The term X is also given to a seven-string harp,
and the straight radial canals of this new
species are reminiscent of such strings.
■ Euglossa X is a euglossine bee species found
in Brazil.
■ The term X has a colloquial meaning. It means,
“fooled you!”.

3)What does this map depict?/Put
funda.

Answer: Route of marathon at 1908
Olympics which became the modern
standard distance for marathon-
42km,385yards.

4) Minimalist poster of which movie?

Answer: The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button.

*5) What is being talked about here?
The basic principle is that each team in a limited
overs match has two resources available with which
to score runs: wickets remaining and overs to play.
Where overs are lost, setting an adjusted target for
the team batting second is not as simple as
reducing the run target proportionally to the loss in
overs, because a team with ten wickets in hand
and 25 overs to bat can be expected to play more
aggressively than if they had ten wickets and a full
50 overs, for example, and can consequently
achieve a higher run rate.

Answer: Duckworth-Lewis method

6) Identify X and Y.
"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand
years, how would men believe and adore, and
preserve for many generations the remembrance of
the city of God!"
The above quotation was introduced to X by his editor,
who was himself an author of repute in the same
genre, in 1941. Inspired by the above, X went on to
base one of his most famous short stories Y on the
quote. Y was then adapted into a full-fledged novel in
1989 by X, a few years before his death.

Answer:
X - Isaac Asimov
Y - Nightfall

7) Id X.
The word was first used in a Test match played between the
West Indies and England at Old Trafford, Manchester, in 1933.
Eliss “Puss” Achong, was a left-arm orthodox spinner, who
represented West Indies in that match. Achong is said to have
had Walter Robins stumped off a surprise delivery that spun
into the right-hander from outside the off stump. A frustrated
Robins on his walk back to the pavilion said to the umpire,
“fancy being done by a bloody X”. Some of the popular X
bowlers are – Paul Adams, Inshan Ali, Michael Bevan, Brad
Hogg, Simon Katich and Garfield Sobers.

8) Why?
Medal of Honor is a first-person shooter video
game developed by Danger Close Games and EA
DICE and published by Electronic Arts.The game
was released on October 12, 2010. US military
officials banned the sale of the game in military
bases "out of respect for the men and women
serving and their families."

Answer:
Players could play as the Taliban.

9) Id the song X, which propelled Y as
an international star.
“X" was first promoted during a TV spot for the NFL
Network's "Thursday Night Football" show, where the
single was the part of the jingle. The single was played
every Thursday in pre-game shows and began on 13
September 2013. A different promo aired every week
with Y wearing jerseys of each of the two teams
playing that week. Y also said that 33 different looks
were designed for the commercial based on the
teams.

Answer:
X-In my city
Y-Priyanka Chopra

*10) Shown below is a painting titled “The Balance of Terror”. It
depicts two groups of people in black and white savagely killing
each other, and talks about the concept of absolute power. This
painting is seen in the trailer of a 2016 movie and acts as a means
of foreshadowing the events of the movie, showing the two warring
“groups”.
ID the movie.

Answer: Batman v Superman: Dawn of
Justice

11) Id X.
The word X itself if of unknown origin. One explanation
is that it is a derivative of ______, a Middle French
word for shepherd’s stave. The curved or “hooked”
ends of the sticks used for X would indeed have
resembled these staves. Another explanation is that
the cork bungs that replaced wooden balls in the 18th
century came from barrels containing “____” ale, also
called “_____”.

Answer: Hockey
French word is hoques.
“hocky” ale

12) Which genre of music am I talking
about?
Stylistic Origins Cultural Origins Typical
Instruments
Derivative Forms
Blues Rock Late 1960s, United
Kingdom and United
States
Electric guitar
Bass Guitar
Drums
Vocals
Grunge

Answer: Heavy Metal (or metal)

13) What is this Mental Floss article
talking about?
If you’ve ever noticed the scoring system’s similarity to a clock
face, you’re not alone. “That’s the theory I think is most
common—that you’re just playing your way around the clock,”
Carillo said. It makes even more sense when you know that in
medieval numerology, the number 60 was considered a nice,
round number, the way 100 is a satisfying set of digits today.
Finally, the Europeans were preoccupied with astronomy and
sextant (one-sixth of a circle), which is 60 degrees, so they may
have scored the game around the completion of a perfect
circle."

Answer: Scoring system in tennis.

14) Id X.
Tokusatsu is a form of Japanese entertainment
that uses considerable amount of special
effects. One of the most popular genre of this
form of entertainment is Kaiju which literally
means strange creatures. X is one of the most
famous Kaiju , also appearing first in a film in
1954 and then has gone on to become a pop
culture icon..

*15) Whose Wikipedia page?
Born Nickname Highest
Ranking
Career
Winnings
Highest
Break
Century
Breaks
Best
Ranking
Finish
24th
July,
1985(age 31)
The Prince of
_____
The Golden
Boy
56
(2013/2014)
56,763
pounds
Snooker: 136
(2014 China
Open
qualifying)
Billiards:876
16 Quarter Finals
( 2013 Welsh
Open,
2013 Indian
Open)

16) Id X & Y.
Two independent record labels sued U.S. rock band X for $1
million, claiming the group used portions of two songs by a
German musician on their last album “Chinese Democracy”.
X and Universal Music Group’s Interscope-Geffen A&M label
were sued by British label Independiente and the U.S. arm of
Domino Recording Company, who own the licensing rights to
song by German electronic musician Ulrich Schnauss.
Singer Y and X band members and album producers copied
portions of two of Schnauss’ songs – “Wherever You Are” and
“A Strangley Isolated Place” – for a song used on the band’s
last album called “Riad N’ the Bedouins”, according to the
lawsuit.

Answer:
X- Guns N’ Roses
Y- Axl Rose

18) Id X.
X blades are said to be lighter, stronger, and
sharper than even the best castle- forged steel,
and feature distinctive rippled patterns similar to
Damascus steel. Only the greatest weapon
smiths can reforge swords from existing X, but
the secret of creating such an alloy was
apparently lost.

19) What sport?
Modern _____ athletes use small fiberglass ______ called
shells which sit on stainless steel blades that curve up to
support the legs and feet that extend beyond the shell.
The athlete wears a super light helmet of synthetic
materials or fiberglass, and the body suit is designed to
create the least amount of wind resistance. The gloves
have sharp metal spikes on three fingers. Even the shoes
are special and must be made according to international
regulations to be legal.

20) Id X.
X is a series of computer games developed by
Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft
Studios. The first title of the series was X,
released in 1997.It was one of the first history-
based real-time strategy games made, utilizing
the Genie game engine. GameSpot described it
as a mix of Civilization and Warcraft.

INFINITE POUNCE AND BOUNCE
ENT ROUND
• +10 for correct answer on the bounce and direct. (no
negatives)
• +10/-10 on the pounce.
• Clockwise

1) Id X & Y.
The acronym EGOT that expands to - Emmy, Grammy,
Oscar, Tony - 4 of the biggest awards in the global
entertainment industry. X, after winning the 2016
Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is said to be a contender for
PEGOT, with the prefix "P" standing for Pulitzer. Till
date, there are only 2 people who can claim to have
this distinguished honor. He won the Pulitzer for his
Broadway hit Y, about a man who X claims to have
lived the the archetypal hip-hop story.

Answer:
■ X- Lin Manuel Miranda
■ Y- Hamilton

2) Id X, Y and the film in question
X and Y found a clever way to choose the right studio for their
script: the story goes that on page 60 of the script, they wrote
a completely out-of-nowhere sex scene between Will and
Chuckie. They took it to every major studio, and nobody even
mentioned the scene. When they met with Harvey Weinstein at
Miramax, he said, "I only have one really big note on the script.
About page 60, the two leads, both straight men, have a sex
scene. What the hell is that?" - X and Y explained that they put
that scene specifically in there to show them who actually read
the script and who didn't. As Weinstein was the only person
who brought it up, Miramax was the studio chosen to produce
the film.

Answer:
■ X- Matt Damon
■ Y- Ben Affleck
■ Z- Good Will Hunting

3) Id X & Y.
X is a famous tragicomedy novel written by a very well known
British author. Major themes in the novel are class, politics and
social issues like that of drugs, prostitution and rape. The novel
was the fastest-selling in the United Kingdom in three years and
had the second best-selling opening week there since Dan Brown’s
The Lost Symbol. The book is being adapted into a BBC television
drama for release in 2014.A Sikh family plays an important part in
the novel, and the description of the character Sukhvinder sparked
some controversy amongst followers of the Sikh faith. The author Y
stated that she admires the Sikh religion and had done a vast
amount of research on Sikhism. Other members of the Sikh
community appreciated the fact that she portrayed Sikhs and
Sikhism in a favourable light and actually draws attention to the
racism that Sikhs face.

Answer: X- J.K.Rowling.
Y- The Casual Vacancy

4) Id X.
On October 22, 2008, Microsoft announced that
Fallout 3 would not be released in India on the Xbox
360 platform, with religious and cultural sentiments
being cited as the reason. They stated, "Microsoft
constantly endeavours to bring the best games to
Indian consumers in sync with their international
release. However, in light of cultural sensitivities in
India, we have made the business decision to not
bring Fallout 3 into the country.“ Although the specific
reason was not revealed in public, it is possible that it
is because the game contains two-headed mutated
cows called X.

5) Id X, Y & Z.
The music video of this hit single X by an American pop
band Z in 2014 was inspired by the 2005 rom-com Y.
Shot in Los Angeles, it features the lead vocalists visiting
ballrooms in the city to interrupt -------- that are taking
place there and performing surprise renditions of X.
Despite accusations that several of the -------- in the video
were staged, X went on to peak at number two on the
Billboard Hot 100, also becoming in the process the
band's eighth consecutive top 10 hit.

Answer: X- Sugar
Y- Wedding Crashers
Z- Maroon 5

6) Id X.
Throughout most of his life he believed that he was only a part
of one personality; what he called the four __X__s, his father,
his dead brother, himself, and Jesus Christ (called __X__ in his
native tongue).In addition to being a painter, he also designed
shirts, hats, ashtrays, stamps, brandy bottles, coat hangers,
bathing suits, crystal ware, tapestries, and playing cards.He
designed the sets used in the dream sequence of Alfred
Hitchock’s Spellbound in 1946. Hitchcock needed a dreamlike
quality to his film, which dealt with the idea that a repressed
experience can directly trigger a neurosis, and he knew that
__X__’s work would help create the atmosphere he wanted in
his film.

7) Identify X and Y, and what tactic was
used?
In the Mad Max universe, Immortan Joe is a warlord
who rules over the "Citadel" - a cluster of three rock
towers that sit above an aquifer of relatively fresh
water. The citadel was taken over by him before the
events of "Fury Road". The tall rocks of the citadel
were a very strong defence and he failed in his first
attempt. He takes inspiration from a real-life tactic
used by a decorated war general X, who is wrongly
identified in the comics as a Persian but was actually a
Y.

Answer:
X – Tanaji
Y – Maratha
He used a monitor lizard with a rope tied
around its waist for climbing up the steep
vertical rock face.

8) Who are we talking about?
Initially they called themselves __ King after
BB King. Then they decided, __ King was too
similar to BB King and since BB King was at
the top of the blues world they called
themselves by their current name.

9) What do the books consist of?
Conceptual artist Aram Bartholl has created
an art installation consisting of eight books
with entries arranged in alphabetical order.
Visitors to the exhibit are invited to open to
books and check if their entries are present.
There are around 4.7 million entries sourced
from a single source. The exhibit is
provocatively titled, “Forgot your ___?”.

10) What is being described?
(1) Think of the hair as two croquet hoops. The nose curves up
just a bit. The mouth is constructed like two coconut halves.
The collars rests a trifle below the chin line.
(2) The hair is hiding two bowling balls. Same lashes as (4)
and (5)
(3) Basic head shape is kinda like a tin can. Slight flare at the
top of the head. Has nine points of hair.
(4)Has 8 points of hair constructed in groups of 3,3,2.
Necklace is off- center on her neck.
(5)Almost similar to (4) except hair is stubbier and has only 3
eyelashes.

Answer: The steps that the animators of the
Simpsons follow.

11) Name the movies from these 4 badly
explained movie plots. (question carries 20
points)
1. Depressed, widowed father teams up with mentally
challenged woman to find his disabled son.
2. Older sister ruins younger sister’s chance to be on
nationally televised game show.
3. Young man finds his mentally unstable father,
convinces him to murder an elderly politician.
4. A billionaire devotes his fortune to cosplay and beating
up the mentally ill.

Answer:
1: Finding Nemo
2: Hunger Games
3: Star Wars
4: Batman: The Dark Knight

MINIMALIST
POSTERS
• +5 for each and +20 if you get all of them right.
• Films, TV Series, Music

FOOTBALL ROUND
• 6 questions
• +10 for correct answer on the bounce and direct. (no negatives)
• +10/-10 on the pounce.(you can pounce on your own questions)
• Anti-Clockwise

1) Put funda.
The song “Greatest Day” reached number one on the
UK Singles Chart, becoming the band's eleventh UK
number-one single. It has since been certified Gold in
the United Kingdom selling over 520,000 copies.
In March 2014, a re-recorded version of the song -
featuring vocals from Barlow and other pop singers
like Eliza Doolittle, Katy B and Spice Girls Melanie C
and Emma Bunton, and former footballers such as
____ _______ and _______ ____ . It was however
never officially released.

Answer:
It was announced as the official song for the
England football team at the 2014 World Cup
in Brazil.
The two blanked out names are Gary Lineker
and Michael Owen.

2) Id X. Name the autobiography.
X tells the story of how his own single-
mindedness and drive made up for a lack of
footballing talent. While there are tales of
growing up with the class of ’92, playing for
England and more, all interspred with
forthright views on loyalty and playing the
modern game. Even non-United fans would
find this a good read.

Answer:
Gary Neville
Name of the autobiography is “Red”.

3)Why did their kit come into spotlight
earlier this year?
On social media, the images of the Palencia
CF (a team which plays in the Spanish
fourth division) kit were accompanied by the
hashtag
Nosdejamoslapiel, which literally
translates to “we give our skin”. The
expression means to give one’s all.

Answer: Their jerseys/kits reproduce the
human anatomy, specifically bones and
muscles.

4)What is being talked about here?
“If the ball has passed a player and has
come from the direction of his own goal,
he may not touch it till the other side have
kicked it, unless there are more than
three of the other side before him. No
player is allowed to loiter between the ball
and the adversaries’ goal.”

5) Identify the player./Put funda.

INFINTE BOUNCE AND
POUNCE SPORTS ROUND
• +10 for correct answer on the bounce and direct.
(no negatives)
• +10/-10 on the pounce.
• Clockwise

1) Id X.
After the Athens Olympics, X took a year away from swimming,
scheduling a return for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
However, he was forced due to illness. Subsequent training
camps were interrupted and he announced his retirement in
November 2006, citing waning motivation. From early 2011,
there was a speculation about X’s return to swimming, fuelled
by people claiming to have seen him training. The
speculations were substantiated when X spoke at a February
2011 press conference of his return to swimming four years
away, with the aim of competing in the 2012 London Olympic
Games. X competed at Australia’s Olympic Trials in 2012, but
failed to make the team.

2) What moniker is given to the match he is
talking about?
“In the strained political situation we were in, it
was a body-to-body encounter with our
opponents. Now I have to admit that I’m
convinced even the referee was pulling for us.
We were a mall country battling the huge
Soviet Goliath.”

Answer: Blood in the Water match.
(Water Polo match between Hungary and USSR at the
1956 Melbourne Olympics.)

3) Id the Sport.
This is one of the very few mixed gender team sports.
It is played by two teams of eight players with either eight females in each
team or with four females and four males in each team.
The objective of the sport is to throw a ball through a bottomless basket that
is mounted on a 3.5m(11.5 ft) high pole.
The sport is invented by Dutch school teacher Nico Broekhuysen in 1902.
In the Netherlands, there are around 580 clubs and over 100,000 people
playing this sport.
This sport has a mixed gender league and all-women league, but no all-men
league.
The sport is also very popular in Belgium and Taiwan.

4) Who is X?
During a chess tournament held in the year 1988, X met
Saheli Dhar, a teenage Chess player. When playing a match,
he offered her a draw but she refused the offer and defeated
him to win the game, which impressed him a lot.
Further, both of them were selected for the National Chess
team, representing the nation at Lloyds Bank Tournament
1991 held at London.
X would then go on to marry Saheli.

5) What is the key difference between
this sport and pole vault?
Fierljeppen is a traditional sport of the
Frisians and of the Dutch. The sport is
similar to pole vault. The pole is between 8
and 13 m long and has a flat round plate at
the bottom to prevent it from sinking into
the muddy river or canal bottom.

Answer: Leap is for the distance and
not the height.

6) Which company?
On November 8th
, 1993, this was incorporated as a company with its
registered office in New Delhi.
The same chaps who founded another entity five years earlier were the
promoters of this entity.
Originally, life members paid Rs.100 and ordinary members paid Rs.10
for entrance and an annual subscription of Rs.15.
This place was also the birthplace of the famous Chinese-style dish
Chicken Manchurian; restaurateur Nelson Wang, who claims to have
invented it at the request of a customer in 1975 while working at this
place as a cook.

7) Name the phrase.
And put funda./Where and why is this
phrase used?
The phrase comes from the French for “Red
Lantern” and refers to the red lantern hung on the
rear vehicle of a passenger railway train or the
brake van(USA caboose) of a railway freight(goods)
train, which signalmen(USA dispatchers) would look
for in order to make sure none of the couplings had
become disconnected.

Answer: The phrase is “Lantern Rouge”.
In Tour De France, the rider coming last would
be given a red lantern due to the tedious nature
of the journey.

8) Give the last name
Jonathan _____, the goaltender of the Los Angeles
Kings made a rookie mistake against the NY Rangers
to let in one of the softest goals ever conceded in the
NHL leading to headlines like:
_____, What was he thinking ?
Not so _____ thinking.

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