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Rules
● 24 Questions
● Pounce and Infinite Bounce
● (+10/0) on direct, (+5/0) on bounce, (+10/-5) on pounce.
● 6 rounds of 4 questions each
● The answers of each question in a round adds up to a connect. Participants
may pounce at the end of every question to attempt to get the connect of the
round.
● Correct connects will get the team (+40,+30,+20,+10) points depending on
them answering after the (1st/2nd/3rd/4th) question of the round respectively.
● Incorrect connects will get the team (-10).
● Teams have only 2 attempts per round to get the connect.

Q1
X is a common strategy for dispute resolution between two
arbitrary options. While its usual applications are in an entirely
different field, it was apocryphally recommended as a way for one
to clarify one’s true feelings to oneself by Sigmund Freud.
An example of this features in the cult Indian web-series Y where
the protagonist locks himself up in a bathroom to carry out X
before taking an extremely important decision, much to the
chagrin of the co-founders of his project. Give X and Y

A1
X - Coin Toss
Y - TVF Pitchers

Q2
X racing, interestingly, is one of the few motor racing sports where two
members are involved with the vehicle.
While only one of the members are controlling the vehicle, the members
must work together while racing to shift the centre of gravity to overcome
the problems caused by the natural asymmetry of X, something that
would be impossible if both the passengers would be seated in the
traditional way people use X.
Technological innovations and advancements for the purpose of
maximum aerodynamism have turned the racing X almost completely
unrecognizable from ordinary X, with most racing X resembling a portion
of the front of an F1 car. Identify the vehicle X.

Q3
It is unclear when the transition from X to the anglicized Y took
place. The X family had always been at the top of the social
pyramid in their state and thus must have had much contact
with the British who may have anglicized their name despite
only two syllables.
Contributing a wide number of its family members to
literature, drama, business, art, and religious reformation, the
X family became known throughout the world when its
member Z achieved a continental first in 1913. Give X and Z

A3
X - Thakur
Y - Tagore
Z - Rabindranath Tagore

Q4
The Xs seem to have a particular liking to the sport of _____, considering the fact that
between the three of them, they have starred in three movies based on this sport.
The first was Main Intequam Loonga (1982) starring Ajay and Vijay Singh X’s father. Ajay
Singh X then appeared in 1990 movie for which he received a National Award. Finally, all
three appeared together in a hit 2007 film centred around the same sport.
The trio also appeared in a trilogy of Hindi action comedy films Y in the 2010s. The name
of this franchise was taken from a 1975 song featuring Ajay and Vijay’s father. In every
movie the Xs have starred in together, the onscreen characters share the same relations
as they do in real life, Ajay and Vijay playing brothers, and their father playing, well,
their father. Identify X and the sport.

A4
X - Deol
Y - Yamla Pagla Deewana
Sport - Boxing

Wars of X is a term used for a series of civil conflicts between rival cadets
of the House of Plantagenet for the control of the throne of England. X
refers to the heraldic badges associated with the two branches, House of A
and House of B.
Y is prominent historical figure and was an important player in the
political conflict of that time. They were the one who called the Great
Council of May 1455 that excluded House of B and was one of the factors
which would lead to the bloody civil war.
Identify X and Y
Q5

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Normal safety
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A5
X - Roses
Y - Margaret of Anjou

Q6
X is a film which was wrongly announced as the Winner of the Best
Picture award as the 2017 actors. The lead actor, Y, was also nominated in
the Best Actor category but didn't win that night. Y starred in another
critically acclaimed film, which told the story of mankind's arguably
biggest scientific achievement. His wife, in the film was played by an
actress Z.
Z is also a popular actress and the recipient of several prestigious awards
including the Emmys and the Golden Globes. She rose to global
prominence for playing a lead character with whom she shares her middle
name.
Identify Z and the character whose name is Z’s middle name.

A6
Z - Claire Elizabeth Foy
Character - Queen Elizabeth

Q7
X is model who is known for being a brand ambassador of Victoria’s Secret. X
had walked for prominent designers such as Prada, Calvin Klein, Gucci, Dolce
& Gabbana, Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent since her debut, and started
appearing for Victoria’s Secret since 2013.
X has been an ardent advocate of LGBTQIA+ rights. She was born though IVF,
her mother is lesbian and her father is gay.
Interestingly, the fans of X have christened themselves Y, a pun taking X’s
surname and adding a prefix before it to make it an indicator of one’s
following on a certain content creation platform.

A7
X - Josephine Skriver
Y - Subskrivers

Q8
On 23rd July 2011, English R&B singer-songwriter X joined an exclusive
list of musicians on the Y.
Interestingly, Welsh Progressive Rock band Magenta had released an
album titled The Y in 1999 that paid tribute to each of these artists in the Y
with a song, two of these songs being The Lizard King and Ladyland Blues.
X was obviously not paid tribute to since she reached the Y in 2011. Just
three years before she joined Y she had told the media in an interview that
she really hoped not to get added to the Y.
Identify X and Y.

A8
X - Amy Winehouse
Y - 27 Club

Q9
The X Goose, a bird found around North Europe, spends its breeding and nesting
season on islands in the far Arctic Circle, thus very few people in medieval times
had ever seen an egg or a chick of this species. This led to the formation of the
myth that they emerged, as fully formed birds, from the Goose X. Since the bird
was never seen in summer it was believed to not lay eggs.
Alternatively, several other myths were described in a 15th century encyclopaedia;
with some saying it was born from driftwood. This belief continued until the 19th
century when it was first formally recorded and described.
Interestingly, in County Kerry, Ireland, until relatively recently, Catholics
abstaining from meat during Lent could still eat this bird because it was considered
as fish. Identify X.

Q10
Anthropologist Franz Boaz and his disciple Benjamin Lee Whorf are credited for creating
a certain apocryphal linguistic claim after spending time with a particular community X
in the early 20th century. This claim was used to further their 'linguistic relativity
hypothesis' which proposed that a language's structure, including its sound, grammar,
vocabulary, etc., shapes its speakers' view of the world.
Thus it would make sense that the language of the community X would have this feature
regarding Y, something X had to see everyday in their natural environment.
While it was even mentioned in one of the books in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy, modern studies have come to discredit this, saying that the X language
had a perfectly normal approach to Y. Can you give the funda to identify this
misconception: X have _____ ____ for Y?

A10
X - Eskimos
Y - Snow
Eskimos have 50/100/200 (an unusually large number) of words for Snow

Q11
Subba Rao, X and other members of the team sat in a conference room thinking
about what they would name what they were planning to launch. X had said he
wanted a musical, catchy name-when a call interrupted the meeting. Rao, not
wanting to be disturbed, picked up the phone and told the caller that he will give a
him a 'Y' later in the day, and put the phone down. On putting the phone down Rao
had an epiphanic moment and suggested ‘Y’ to X, who immediately accepted the
idea.
Subsequently to advertise Y, the team devised a campaign jingle which changed a
word in a nursery rhyme by one letter to make it " Y Y ________ ____".
Identify Y and X.

Q12
The name of the discipline/field X was derived from the Latin word meaning 'small
pebble'. This meaning has little to do with our understanding of X today, but is used even
in modern medicine to refer to a concretion of material, usually mineral salts, that forms
in an organ or duct of the body eg. Kidney stones. 'Small pebbles' is linked to X due to the
fact pebbles were used in the ancient past for the reasons X is used today.
The study of X had implicitly been carried out before but in the 17th century Y from
England and Z from Germany independently published most of our modern frameworks
for X. While Y used X to solve several problems in physics, Z provided most of our
modern notations and principles in X. This "simultaneous" discovery had created a huge
rift between the academia of England and the rest of Europe at the time. Give discipline
X, and personalities Y and Z (surnames are enough).

A12
X - Calculus
Y - Isaac Newton
Z - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Connect Answer
The Adventures of Tintin

Q 13
X is a church located in France, it's the tallest cathedral in the country. Presently it
has two towers - Tour de Beurre and Tour Saint Roman. Throughout its history, it
has been built and rebuilt multiple times and therefore bears reflections of features
of different architectural styles. It shares a part of its name with a certain building
that was totally lit(!) in 2019. The city, which also forms part of its name, was
where Joan of Arc was burnt alive.
It was consecrated in 1063 in the presence of Y, an exceptionally popular historical
figure whose title reflects the achievement he is known for which would take place
few years into the future when he would travel towards the northwest.
Identify X and Y

A13
X - Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Rouen
Y - William the Conqueror

Q14
In 2002, a group of researchers announced the discovery of the fossilised
remains of what was considered to be the earliest examples of flowering
plants. Named Archaefructus sinensis it was dated to at least 125 million years
ago. X, with its simple large flowers and mostly unspecialized parts is
considered be to the closest living relative to this plant.
The flower has immense symbolic value in South Asia, with it being the
national flower of two the countries, and the state flower for one of the states
in India. It also finds extensive references in Tamil Sangam literature where it
symbolizes the grief of separation, and evokes the seashore.
Identify X

Q15
X is a novel considered to be one of the greatest novels of all time. Due to the
fact that the author spends a major part of the novel showing off his
encyclopaedic knowledge without furthering the plot, it is also an
exceptionally long novel. In an important scene, faced with the dilemma
between his duty to the law and the mercy his quarry had shown him, the
main antagonist of the book drowns himself in a river, Y.
More than a century and a half later, in a critically acclaimed musical drama
film, the female protagonist sings about her aunt drowning in the same river.
The song was also nominated for Best Original Song at the Academy awards.
Identify X and the river Y.

A15
X - Les Miserables
Y - Seine River

Q16
Hubert Le Sueur was a French sculptor, though the most productive years
of his life when he produced his most well known works were spent in a
different country.
In 1633, he completed an equestrian statue of King X, whose reign is
infamous for the English Civil War as well as his trial and execution. The
statue is currently at Y. Y also originally also the place where one of the
Eleanor Crosses was placed. 19th century onwards, Y is considered to the
notional centre of the city it is located in and is used as the centre from
which all distances to other parts of the city are measured.
Identify Y

A16
X - Charles I
Y - Charing Cross

Q17
The app X started out as YX, where Y is the type of content they create,
and X the form in which it is presented. X was founded in 2013, by IIT
Delhi graduates concerned by a certain sense of unawareness and low
attention spans amongst their peer groups, with both the problems being
targeted by the app.
The red X app logo features a reference to the entire name of the
company (YX) in a certain way. Identify the app and the funda of the logo.

I don’t like these
safety slides
Nice, you’re
disqualified

A17
X - News Y - Inshorts (NIS)
The logo spells out N-I-S in Morse Code

Q18
Hamadryads, in Greek Mythology, are a type of nymph that dwell inside
or are bound to a particular tree. Based on this, the X was initially
classified under the genus Hamadryas in 1836, and was subsequently
classified under Naja in 1837.
However in terms of modern taxonomy, the X is today the only member
of the genus Ophiophagus, a name derived from the Greek words
ophio/ophid - ‘pertaining to snakes’ and phagous meaning ‘eater,
glutton of’. Identify the creature X.

Q19
In the world of pens, particularly fountain pens, ‘X’ing is the practice of
attaching the cap of a pen to its rear while writing.
The niche usage of the word in this way added to the word’s other
common wordings might lead you to send the pen to another part of the
country, or even get a load of likes on social media if you misinterpret
someone asking you to ‘X your pen’. The word comes from a Latin word
meaning ‘to place/put down’.

Q20
"My children call me X, my mother calls me X, who is this Gordon character?" X was
quoted saying to a journalist who called him Gordon in the documentary Bring on the
Night.
An extremely skilled songwriter, X contributed to hits such as Money for Nothing by
Dire Straits, and All for Love by Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart. X’s own band very
successfully combined new wave with reggae and jazz elements. They even released
an extremely successful album whose Franglais title loosely translated to ‘White
Reggae’.
Born as Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, he changed his name to X after the nickname
he got from his habit of wearing a ___ and ____ coloured striped jumper to gigs with
his local band the Phoenix Jazzmen. Identify X and the two colours on his jumper.

A20
X - Sting
Colours - Black and Yellow

Connect Answer
The Cobrapost Sting

Q21
X is a modern scientific discipline which derives most of its aspects from the proto-scientific
discipline Y, including its name. Y, one of the oldest disciplines to have been studied by people,
is concerned with the complicated relationship between humans and the world around them.
However Y covered a much wider scope of sub-disciplines when compared to X, discussing
philosophy and chrysopoeia, things X has moved on from.
Y is also the central theme of an exceptionally popular novel with the title itself referring to
someone who practices Y.
Since the name of Y was derived from Arabic, the word has a particular feature also seen in
other scientific disciplines with their names taken from Arabic. Identify Y and the funda behind
the feature.

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A21
X - Chemistry
Y - Alchemy
Funda - the Arabic word for ‘the’ is al which led to words such as al-
kimiya and al-jabr becoming alchemy and algebra.

Q22
X was the president of the United States of America. He had succeeded Jimmy
Carter and had built his campaign on the promise of improving economic
conditions which had deteriorated under Jimmy Carter. His economic policies
which could be classified as ‘trickle-down’ and ‘supply-side’ were termed as
Y, a term derived from him name.
The policies were often dubbed as ‘voodoo economics’ by his political
opponents and ‘free market economics’ by his advocates. Before Donald
Trump assumed office in 2017, he held the distinction of being the oldest first
term U.S. president.
Identify X and the term Y.

A22
X - Ronald Reagan
Y - Reaganomics

Q23
‘X’ is a two-word term referring to the particularly hot and sultry days of
summer. The term comes the heliacal rising of the star system Y which
Hellenistic astrology connected with heat, drought, sudden
thunderstorms, lethargy, fever, mad dogs, and bad luck. The English
phrase was directly translated from the Latin dies caniculares.
The phrase contains the name of an animal that Y is associated with,
being the most conspicuous star in the constellation associated with that
animal. Identify the phrase X and the star Y. The journals of one cowardly
teenager might help you figuring out the phrase.

Q24
X and Ors. vs Union of India and Ors. is a landmark decision of the
Supreme Court of India, with the judgement setting in place the
limitations on the parliamentary power in amending the Constitution,
declaring the power was to amend and not to destroy. The case came up
when the Bengaluru textile-producing X was nationalized in the 1970s on
the claim of mismanagement, and questions were raised on the
government’s power to ignore the Right to Property.
The ruling, which also struck down the article 4 and 55 of the
controversial 42nd amendment, turned 40 this year.
Identify X

A24
X - Minerva Mills
(Minerva Mills Ltd. and Ors. v. Union Of India and Ors )

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