Another Quiz in the Fall

Another Quiz in the Fall
Saraswat Chatterjee
Rohan Setlur

RULES
◈5 rounds.
◈2 Infinite Rebounds, 2 Written Rounds and 1 Long Connect.
◈Infinite pounces. +10/-5 on pounces, +10/0 on direct.
◈Points for Written Rounds and Long Connect will be
displayed later.
◈QMs’ decisions are final.
◈Enjoy!

Rules
◈ A list of 5 blanks plus a Bonus Question.
◈ +10 for each correct answer. No negatives.
◈ +10 for the Bonus Question.
◈ +10 if all 5 answers are correct OR if any 3 answers and
the Bonus Question are correct.

Question
◈ Asterix and the Banquet is the 5th book in the Asterix series, and
features Inspector General Overanxius, who erects a stockade around
Asterix’s village to prevent the inhabitants from spreading their
rebellious ideas through Gaul.
◈ Asterix bets that he and Obelix will escape the village and go on a tour
of Gaul, collecting regional culinary specialties for a banquet upon their
return. Overanxius promises to raise the stockade if they succeed.
◈ These specialities mentioned remain so even today. In the following
slide is a list of some of the culinary specialities collected by them.
Name the cities they collected each speciality from.

◈ Champagne- A
◈ Sausages- B
◈ Nicoise salad- C
◈ Fish stew- D
◈ White wine- E
◈ Bonus Question- What inspired Goscinny and Uderzo to
write/draw Asterix and the Banquet?

◈ Champagne- Reims
◈ Sausages- Lyon
◈ Nicoise salad- Nice
◈ Fish stew- Marseille
◈ White wine- Bordeaux
◈ Answer to Bonus Question- Tour de France

1
◈ The biscuits were first baked on the demand of the last X
of Y, Mir _____ Ali Khan, who wanted a snack that was a
little sweet and a little salty. Today, evening tea is
incomplete without these biscuits anywhere in Y.
◈ It was sold at the cafes like New Grand Hotel, in the
vicinity of Y’s major hospital, also named after the same
person.
◈ Name the biscuit.

◈ Osmania biscuit
◈ X – Nizam, Y – Hyderabad

2
◈ X, 1st Viscount of Alamein was notorious for his lack of tact and diplomacy. He
held racist views towards Africans, describing them as "complete savages"
incapable of developing their own countries. X's memoirs (1958) criticized many
of his wartime comrades in harsh terms, including Y.
◈ Y took over Ground Forces Command from X on 1 September 1944 (much to X’s
resentment). Journalist Mark Urban writes that X seemed unable to grasp that it
was politically unacceptable to public opinion to have X remain as Land Forces
Commander.
◈ Z, who said about him, “In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable" had X
promoted to field marshal by way of compensation.
◈ ID X, Y and Z.

◈ X – General Bernard Montgomery
◈ Y – General Dwight D. Eisenhower
◈ Z – Sir Winston Churchill

3
◈ While drawing an initial version of a character late one evening, X was
watching The Man Who Would Be King, John Huston’s adaptation of
Rudyard Kipling’s work, starring Michael Caine, Sean Connery, and
Christopher Plummer. The next day, X took a phone call saying X’s
mother had died.
◈ “The Y symbol is very important in that movie,” said X. “And it was
literally 20 years later that I looked at the sign of Z and realized how
similar they were.” “When I saw the movie again and saw the Y symbol,
I went cold all over and I thought, ‘Is that why the Z symbol is what it
is?’” “And I’ve got a feeling that, on some deep, subconscious level,
they are connected.”
◈ Give X, Y and Z.

◈ X – J. K. Rowling
◈ Y - Masonic symbol
◈ Z – Deathly Hallows

4
◈ A P is a person who assists in a particular process, much like a Q does with
another process. It is often a community based role, and its practitioners perform
a large variety of services, including but not limited to logistical planning, and
providing spiritual, psychological, and social support. There is currently no
national body that oversees certification requirements for P, and little regulation.
In comparison, there are multiple regulatory bodies that ensure the education and
practices of Q.
◈ Ps "provide emotional and physical support at an intensely personal and crucial
time”. Many people who become Ps are “volunteers who feel strongly about
creating a safe space" as a neutral third party. The field has also seen a
significant rise in interest, especially in the organization INELDA, which trains
these individuals.
◈ ID P and Q.

◈ P – Death midwife/ death doula
◈ Q – Midwife/doula

5
◈ X was not the most skilled or experienced in the field at the time. However, X bore
a passing resemblance to Y and this coupled with a passion for adventure made
George P. Putnam choose X for a particular event in 1928, that Y had made a
year earlier. This event became a first of its kind, but X felt that the attention and
appreciation was undeserved as, in X’s own words “I was just…like a sack of
potatoes the whole time.”
◈ However in 1932, and carefully chosen as the same day of Y’s achievement, X
performed this feat from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland single-handedly, and
forever went down in history as a pioneer of the field.
◈ Give X, Y and the event.

◈ X – Amelia Earhart
◈ Y – Charles Lindbergh
◈ First transatlantic flight
(man, woman, solo)

6
◈ X’s found within modern structures, including both commercial, public and private
buildings, are often connected between multiple floors. When installed in
restaurants, schools, kindergartens, hospitals, retirement homes or in private
homes, X’s generally terminate in a kitchen.
◈ The term X seems to have been popularized in the United States in the 1840s,
after the model of earlier "Xs" now known as Y (found in dining rooms), with
absolutely no physical resemblance to X - but similar purpose/functional role. The
mechanical X was invented by George W. Cannon, a New York City inventor in
1883. In London, they were extremely popular in the houses of the rich and
privileged, where maids would use them to deliver laundry to the laundry room
from different rooms in the house.
◈ Give X and Y.

◈ X – Dumbwaiter
◈ Y – Lazy Susan

7
◈ The X explains how epithelial cells efficiently pack in three
dimensions. As epithelial tissue bends or grows, the cells have to take
on new shapes to pack together using the least amount of energy
possible, and until X’s discovery, it was assumed that epithelial cells
packed in mostly frustums, as well as other prism-like shapes.
◈ Officially, the name X was coined because of its resemblance to a
structure in some insects.
◈ ID X.

8
◈ X has another common name, the King's cure-all, which has a rather interesting legend
behind it. In some circles, it was considered socially unacceptable to have a wife who's
having a bad day. And since prevailing logic dictated that all bad days “must be
menstrual-related”, a husband would give his wife the extracted essential oil from this
plant, obtained through a chemist, to ease her pain and have her back to acting “like a
good wife should”.
◈ Sexist legends aside, the oil of mature seeds contains approximately 7-10% of GLA
(gamma linolenic acid), which is a preliminary stage in the production of prostaglandins.
Conditions like endogenous eczema, Sjögren-syndrome, premenstrual
syndrome (PMS), polyarthritis, multiple sclerosis and menopausal symptoms can be
induced by a prostaglandin shortage, and so X has been used in several conditions with
varying success, but is still a common therapy for women experiencing distressing
symptoms of Premenstrual Syndrome.
◈ ID X.

◈ X- Common Evening Primrose

9
◈ X Day is celebrated every year on 25 May. On this day, fans of Y openly carry
a/an X with them to express their appreciation for Y, in whose words, “A/an X is
about the most massively useful thing a/an ____________ __________ can have.
Partly it has great practical value. You can ____ __ ______ ___ ___ ______ as
you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can ___ __ __ on the
brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea
vapours; you can _____ __ __ beneath the stars which shine so redly on the
desert world of Kakrafoon; … and of course ___ ________ ___ ____ __ if it still
seems to be clean enough.”
◈ ID X and Y.

◈ X – Towel
◈ Y – Douglas Adams

10
◈ In June 2018, many readers were shocked to come across a childhood-shattering
rumor about X. The rumor, as it turned out, was completely false, and stemmed
from a distorted understanding of details surrounding another book that was
released in 2015.
◈ When you sit back, take a deep breath and think about it, there’s plenty of
evidence that X’s author did indeed write the character as always assumed. Fans
can go back to enjoying X(formally known as Edward)’s adventures without
wondering exactly what other horrific lies they’ve been fed since childhood.
◈ What was the rumour?

◈ Winnie the Pooh is female!

11
◈ Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee passed
away on 13th August due to multiple organ failure.
◈ His family refused the CPI(M)’s offer to drape his body in
the party’s flag, and unusually chose a different red and
green flag, that represented something, which was as
special to him as the party, and was also a reference to
his childhood passion.
◈ What flag was Somnath Chatterjee draped in?

12
◈ In the town of Roermond in the Netherlands lies an unusual tourist
attraction- two graves in the Het Oude Kerkhof Cemetery.
◈ J.W.C van Gorcum, colonel of the Dutch Cavalry and militia
commissioner in Limburg, and his wife, Lady J.C.P.H van Aefferden are
buried on two sides of a wall which runs through the cemetery.
◈ They were married in 1842. After being married for 38 years the colonel
died in 1880. His wife died in 1888 and had decided not to be buried in
the family tomb but on the other side of the wall, the closest she could
get to her husband. Two clasped hands connect the graves across the
wall.
◈ Why were the two buried in such a manner?

◈ The Colonel was a Protestant
and his wife was a Catholic

13
◈ New York magazine’s November 2012 Special Issue became
their most famous one of all time, mostly because of the iconic
cover photo, captured by one Iwan Baan.
◈ The Special Issue dealt with a specific “event” which took place
in the city a few weeks prior to the issue. The photo is said to
be the best capture of that “event”, and portrays the extent of
inconvenience it caused.
◈ What was this event?
◈ Image on the next slide.

14
◈ Connect:
1. The cities of Wurzberg,
Augsburg and Fussen
2. Rothenburg ob der Tauber-
known as “the most picturesque
town in Germany”
3. The Neuschwanstein Castle

15
◈ A classic in its own right, the film X tells the love story of a colonist and
a local, but has been found to be filled with historical inaccuracies.
◈ In the film, __________ and _____ are both adults, though history
records that __________ was roughly 10 years old at the time _____
arrived.
◈ What historians do know is that the romantic ending is starkly
contrasted by the real life of __________, who was married off to
another man, renamed Rebecca and converted to Christianity before
dying at the ripe old age of 22.
◈ Name the movie X.

16
◈ Historians have proved that an infamous event, and
subsequently the proverb that emerged due to this, are actually
not true. The event involved ____, who always fancied himself
as a great artist (to the extent that his dying words were
allegedly, "Qualis artifex pereo," or "What an artist dies in me!“).
◈ The main point raised to debunk this story is that the fiddle
didn’t exist at the time of ____, and wasn’t invented until 1000
years later.
◈ What allegedly scandalous event is being talked about?

◈ Nero fiddled while Rome burned

17
◈ One of the most popular street foods in the world, X is a variation of the
Donor Kebab of Ottoman Turkey. In Mexico, a variant of this is available,
known as Tacos al pastor, and the Greek variant is called Gyros.
◈ X (Arabic derivation of a Turkish word), Donor and Gyros- all mean the
same thing- “turning”.
◈ In 2012, the popularity of X suddenly increased in New York City after the
release of the movie Y, in which, the protagonists are seen eating X at an
eatery in New York City, as a form of celebration.
◈ Name the dish X, and the movie Y.

◈ X- Shawarma
◈ Y- The Avengers

18
◈ The Republic of X began as a settlement of the American Colonization Society (ACS),
who believed black people would face better chances for freedom and prosperity there
than in the United States. The country declared its independence on July 26, 1847.
◈ The U.S. did not recognize X's independence until February 5, 1862, during the American
Civil War. Between January 7, 1822, and the American Civil War, more than 15,000 freed
and free-born black people who faced legislated limits in the U.S., and 3,198 Afro-
Caribbeans, relocated to the settlement. The black settlers carried their culture and
tradition with them to X. The constitution and flag were modeled after those of the U.S.
◈ Name the country X.

19
◈ _________ is a 780-line, twelfth-century Latin comedic play, probably
composed in France but possibly Spain. It was 'one of the most
influential and important of all the many pseudo-Ovidian productions
concerning the "arts of Love" ' in medieval Europe, and the most
famous and influential of the medieval elegiac comedies, especially in
Spain.
◈ The play was a short one, and formed a slim codex of pages without
covers, and due to its popularity, it was widely circulated, read and
copied.
◈ This led to the introduction of a new word in the English language in the
late 1300s, based on the title of the play. What word?

20
◈ On December 21, 1970, the King of ____ _ ____ secretly met with the nation’s 37th president in
the Oval Office, an event documented by White House photographer Ollie Atkins. The meeting
came about after X showed up unannounced at the White House gates earlier that morning and
dropped off a hand-written letter of introduction for the president stating he wanted to be of
service to the country and suggesting he be made a “Federal Agent-at-Large” to help fight
America’s war on drugs.
◈ During the get-together, X reiterated his wish to be helpful to the president, shared his belief
that the Beatles promoted anti-Americanism and said he’d been studying Communist
brainwashing and the drug culture. X then asked Y if he could get him a federal narcotics agent
badge, a request that was granted later that day. Also at X’s request, his confab with the
commander-in-chief was kept under wraps. In 1977, X, who never ended up working with the
White House, died of heart failure, suspected to have been related to his abuse of prescription
drugs.
◈ ID X & Y.

◈ X- Elvis Presley
◈ Y- Richard Nixon

21
◈ This church is one of the major landmarks in Russia, and the second
most famous monument in St. Petersburg (after the Winter
Palace/Hermitage Museum).
◈ Construction began in 1883 during the reign of Alexander III, 2 years
after the assassination of his father Alexander II. The church was
dedicated to be a memorial to his father, Alexander II, and hence they
chose the site where Emperor Alexander II was fatally wounded by
political nihilists in March 1881.
◈ This infamous 1881 event gives the church its name. Name the church.

◈ Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood

22
◈ The 1995 rom-com/stoner movie Mallrats did not fare
well at the box office but later became popular on home
video.
◈ The most iconic feature in the movie was the extended
cameo of X, where he appeared as himself, a sage-like
man giving advice to the lead character.
◈ ID X.

23
◈ William E. ______, an American businessman of German
descent, was into the timber business in the early 1900s, and
his area of operations were mostly in the state of Washington-
Puget Sound, Hoquiam, Grays Harbor and Seattle.
◈ He once bought a _____ for fun, then cracked it while playing
around with it. He went to get replacement parts, but were told
they would take months to arrive. Incensed, he set out to build
a better _____ made of superior parts, creating the immense
_____ maker we know today.
◈ Name the company.

25
◈ Director Guillermo del Toro drew a lot of inspiration from
X’s paintings in his 2006 film Pan’s Labyrinth.
◈ Most of the inspiration for the film was taken from X’s late
series of “Black Paintings”- all marked by an impressive
and fairly gruesome undertone.
◈ This was most evident in the scene with the Pale Man,
where the Pale Man bites the heads off the fairies.
◈ Name X, and the painting referred to in the Pale Man
scene.

◈ X- Francisco Goya
◈ Saturn Devouring His Son

Rules
◈ A list of 10 blanks.
◈ +10 for each correct answer. No negatives.
◈ +10 for getting all answers correct.

Question
◈ The Ottoman Empire was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western
Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries. It was founded at the end of
the 13th century in northwestern Anatolia in the town of Söğüt by the Oghuz Turkish tribal
leader Osman I. After 1354, the Ottomans crossed into Europe, and with the conquest of the
Balkans, the Ottoman beylik was transformed into a transcontinental empire.
◈ During the 16th and 17th centuries, at the height of its power under the reign of Suleiman the
Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire was a multinational, multilingual empire controlling most of
Southeast Europe, parts of Central Europe, Western Asia, parts of Eastern Europe and
the Caucasus, North Africa and the Horn of Africa.
◈ After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, some of the regions that were ruled by the Empire
transformed into 16 countries/semi-states/controlled territories, and the rest of the areas
became parts of existing countries/kingdoms. The following slides contain a list of the 16
entities along with a map of the Ottoman Empire.
◈ FITB.

◈ Turkish Provincial
Government
◈ ____A____ Republic
◈ ____B____ Viceroyalty
◈ Bosnia & Herzegovina
◈ Revolutionary ___C___
◈ Kingdom of ___D____
◈ Albania
◈ Principality of
____E____
◈ Occupied Enemy
Territory Administration
◈ Mandatory __F__
◈ Kingdom of Hejaz
◈ French ____G___
◈ British Cyprus
◈ French ___H____
◈ Italian ___I__
◈ Khedivate of ___J__

◈ Turkish Provincial
Government
◈ Hellenic Republic (A)
◈ Caucasus Viceroyalty (B)
◈ Bosnia & Herzegovina
◈ Revolutionary Serbia (C)
◈ Kingdom of Romania (D)
◈ Albania
◈ Principality of Bulgaria (E)

◈ Occupied Enemy Territory
Administration
◈ Mandatory Iraq (F)
◈ Kingdom of Hejaz
◈ French Algeria (G)
◈ British Cyprus
◈ French Tunisia (H)
◈ Italian Libya (I)
◈ Khedivate of Egypt (J)

Infinite Rebound 2
Anti-Clockwise

1
◈ The item X borrows its name from the origin of its filling, being plucked from the
breast of the female of the species. In more recent years, the filling has been
largely replaced by equivalents from domestic animals and synthetic alternatives,
and so the items should more properly be known by the generic Y (a French
loanword), although Americans prefer the term “comforter”.
◈ Although actual Xs are now quite a rarity, X harvesting continues and is
sustainable, as it can be done after the young leave the nest with no harm to
them. The scientific name of the species, Somateria mollissima., translates to
“very soft body wool”, all referring to X.
◈ ID X and Y.

◈ X – Eiderdown
◈ Y – Duvet

2
◈ European and American versions may have the same number of Xs, but their
maximum Y will always be different, the European being one less than their
transatlantic neighbors.
◈ The naming convention is possibly different because in Europe, one Y is always
given a special name such as Erdgeschoss in Germany, planta baja in Spain, and
prízemie in Slovakia. In America, however, they name nothing, and no Y gets
preferential treatment.
◈ Latin America and Quebec unfortunately were caught in the middle, with colonial
conventions intact and a need to standardize with their neighbours. So they
compromised, retaining the special names for the Y in question but also including
it with the rest, so that their total would be the same as those in America and
confusion would (hopefully) reduce.
◈ What is being talked about?

◈ X – Storeys
◈ Y – Floors
◈ America – First Floor and Second Floor
◈ Europe – Ground Floor and First Floor
◈ Quebec, Canada – Ground Floor and then Second Floor

3
◈ P, Q and R were all governed by the same colonial ruler, while S (in the same
region) managed to avoid invasion. All four countries share the same religion, but
R practices it a little differently because of a particular prolonged influence they
had.
◈ The Q and S languages are, in fact mutually intelligent, sort of like American and
Australian English.
◈ The language of P is used while addressing royalty in S, but lacks the tonality
seen in the other three.
◈ P, Q, and S have scripts stemming from the same common root and their symbols
appear quite similar. R, however, branched out long ago into a different family of
script and in the last century or so changed has changed its writing system
officially to a form even more distant to their region.
◈ ID P, Q, R and S.

◈ P – Cambodia
◈ Q - Laos
◈ R – Vietnam
◈ S – Thailand

4
◈ X is a means of cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of
Y. Meaning has been attributed to Y for thousands of years, and some form of X
has been practiced in traditional cultures throughout Europe, Asia, and the Middle
East.
◈ Interest in X soared in Victorian England and in the United States during the 19th
century. Gifts of Y were used to send a coded message to the recipient, allowing
the sender to express feelings which could not be spoken aloud in Victorian
society. These gifts could then even be worn or carried as a fashion accessory.
◈ ID X and Y.

◈ X – Floriography/Victorian Flower language
◈ Y – Flowers/bouquets

5
◈ One of the most sought after word origins in history, the precise
etymology of the word X has been lost over the course of time. Three
possible explanations exist, though none of them might actually be the
truth. One suggests that the word is black slang for the performing
ensemble. Another hypotheses tells us that its roots lie in the name of
an early X band or an early musician.
◈ Or the name might also be slang for Y, the most common floral
perfume for prostitutes working in early twentieth century brothels
(where X developed).
◈ ID X.

6
◈ The proposed explanation for this difference is as follows: in countries
like USA and Canada, the primary requirement is to supplement a
household device in summer. It also usually serves as a fixture for yet
another appliance, and its speed must necessarily be restricted in favor
of stability.
◈ In India, it is used primarily as a stand alone appliance and as a result
of prevailing climatic conditions, needs to work faster, with more speed
settings and in an energy-efficient way.

◈ 4/5 bladed fans in US and Canada
◈ 3 bladed fans in India

7
◈ Most examples of X are constructed in a vertical plane, although there are
exceptions. Body measurements are used for comparison during the process.
◈ The first component is allowed to drift on a breeze until it adheres to a surface on
the far end.
◈ It is then reeled in, tightened and strengthened multiple times.
◈ Radials are then built with appropriate spacing.
◈ Next, the center is fortified with circular structures, and lastly the periphery is
modified through replacement to attain a certain desired quality.

8
◈ The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which
observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence". In other
words, employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they
reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not
necessarily translate to another.
◈ Scott Adams, seeing a flaw in the Peter Principle, proposed the Dilbert Principle: that
companies tend to systematically promote their least-competent employees to middle
management to limit the damage they can do.
◈ The “X principle”, named after one of the brains behind the show Y, analyses
organizational promotions based on three archetypes: the Sociopath, the Clueless and
the Loser. It predicts the exact opposite: that the most competent ones will be promoted
to middle management (Z was a star salesman before he become a Clueless middle
manager). The least competent employees (but not all of them) will be promoted not to
middle management, but fast-tracked through to senior management. To the Sociopath
level.
◈ ID X, Y and Z.

◈ X – Gervais
◈ Y – The Office
◈ Z- Michael Scott

9
◈ Cannabis hyperemesis syndrome can occur with excessive usage and
is characterized by recurrent nausea, vomiting, and crampy abdominal
pain. These symptoms have been reported to be improved temporarily
by X, so much so that most patients experiencing these symptoms
relieve themselves through X on their own and only then present to the
Emergency Room. Physicians end up more involved in treating the
side-effects of X than the original syndrome, which of course requires
the patient to stop consuming cannabis fully.
◈ What is it that these people do?

◈ Take hot showers/baths (>41 C)
◈ End up being treated for burns/dehydration

10
◈ Hisarlik, is the modern name for the generally agreed-upon site of X, also known
as Ilion, and is located in Turkey near the modern city of Çanakkale.It has been
under near-constant archaeological excavation ever since Schliemann began in
1873.
◈ The archaeological site of Hisarlik is known in archaeological circles as a tell. A
tell is an artificial hill, built up over centuries and millennia of occupation from its
original site on a bedrock knob. The assumed location of X (an archaeological
layer of Hisarlik that chronologically spans from c. 1300 to c. 950 BC and
coincides with the collapse of the Bronze Age) was apparently well known in the
ancient world and was visited by Alexander the Great.
◈ ID X.

11
◈ On the morning of April 7th, 2012, a three-alarm fire broke out at an Oklahoma
City apartment complex in Oklahoma, leaving one person hospitalized for smoke
inhalation and five units damaged. The local station KFOR News Channel 4 was
among the first to arrive on the scene and interview one of the displaced
residents, Sweet Brown.
◈ During the interview, she stated that she had woken up to get a “cold pop” when
she thought someone was grilling before she realized there was a fire. Brown
then proceeded to run out of the apartment without shoes. In describing the heavy
presence of smoke from the fire, and her reason to run out without putting on
shoes, she uttered “____ ______ ___ ____ ___ ____!”.
◈ Her interview became viral on social media and was immortalised in a different
form. How?

◈ “Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That” Meme

12
◈ Pieter Breugel the Elder worked for a successful publisher early in his career, and
produced many engravings of popular proverbs and he later made full sized
paintings from some of them. One such painting depicts two proverbs, in the form
of a well known Greek mythological event.
◈ A wallet and a sword on the ground depict the proverb “A sword and money need
careful hands.” The shepherd and the ploughman going about their daily business
in spite of there being a corpse in the thicket depict the proverb “No plough stops
because a man dies.”
◈ Both these proverbs are applicable to the mythological event depicted, as well as
the carelessness of the shepherd as his sheep wander off into the sea.
◈ What famous mythological is depicted in this painting?

13
◈ Lotto Sport Italia is a sportswear brand which has trouble
competing with bigwigs such as Nike, Adidas and Puma.
◈ In 2014, they took a gamble and sponsored X, which turned out
to be a jackpot for them.
◈ X achieved something, which they were not expected to
achieve, and took Lotto to an elite club, where all the other
entrants were sponsored by either Nike or Adidas.
◈ Give X. What did they achieve?

◈ X- Costa Rica Football Team
◈ They reached the World Cup 2014 Quarter Finals

14
◈ Lucullus, a politician of the Roman Republic, was a major commander
during the Third Mithridatic War of 76–63 B.C. Hoping to attack the
Kingdom of Pontus while its army was away, Lucullus was surprised to
find his invasion force met by King Mithridates of Pontus himself.
◈ With the two armies on the verge of battle, “something” happened on
the ground between the two armies. Reports from each side suggest
that both forces, fearing the wrath of their respective gods, fled the
battlefield as quickly as they could, making this the first and probably
last battle ever, where the victor was an _____.
◈ What was this “something” that stopped the war?

◈ A meteor struck the ground

15
◈ Marko Saaresto was born in Helsinki, Finland and was actively involved in music
from a very young age. He formed the band Playground in 2001, and wrote
several songs with them. The songs were compiled into an album but they found
no label willing to distribute it, and hence called it quits.
◈ One late evening in early 2002, Saaresto was approached by Sam Lake, the
writer of the Max Payne series of videogames to write the lead single for the
second installment in the series, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne. Lake gave
Saaresto a poem he had written and asked him to make a song out of it. Saaresto
modified it, and along with former Playground bandmate Olli Tukiainen, wrote the
now-famous single Late Goodbye. Lake offered them the services of industrial
musician Markus 'Captain' Kaarlonen. Upon the release of the game, the song
garnered cult status.
◈ This led them to do something which is Saaresto’s main claim to fame. What?

◈ They formed Poets of the Fall

16
◈ In the 44 years of his life, X produced an incredible amount of works
encompassing short stories, novels, essays and non-fiction. His love for
travel led him to eventually settle in Samoa, where the author spent his
final years drawing inspiration from life in the Pacific.
◈ In June 1888, X set sail and spent three years travelling through the
South Pacific. He eventually settled in the Samoan Islands, building a
magnificent family property that was to be his home for the remainder
of his life.
◈ He now lies buried on Mt. Vaea in Samoa. The Samoan people revered
him so much that the title of his most famous work inspired their
tourism tagline- SAMOA- “The ________ ______”. ID X. FITB.

◈ X- Robert Louis Stevenson
◈ Treasure Island

17
◈ Many theories exist as to how the phrase “____ __ ______” became
popular in India, considering how one of the words does not fit in at all,
and makes the phrase grammatically incorrect. Some claim that it is
derived from a tradition thought to date to World War II, when there
were worldwide diesel shortages. Trucks would be filled to the brim with
kerosene instead.
◈ The kerosene made the vehicles highly flammable, and prone to
exploding at the slightest accident, so the backs of the trucks were
painted, “____ ______ On Kerosene,” to warn drivers to keep their
distance. This reason is among the more plausible, since mixing diesel
with kerosene is practiced even today, to save money.
◈ FITB.

18
◈ No clear reason has yet been found for this unusual feature
which has perplexed historians for over 3 centuries.
◈ Some of the possible causes proposed are:
• It was hit by a canonball fired by Napoleon’s soldiers.
• It was destroyed by a Sufi Muslim named Muhammad Sa'im al-
Dahr in 1378 CE, in order to break the blind devotion the locals
had towards it.
◈ A fictional explanation offered by Goscinny and Uderzo is that
Obelix tried to climb it and caused the destruction.

◈ The broken nose of the Sphinx

19
◈ The X is a strepsirrhine primate native to a very small part of the world. It is the
world's largest nocturnal primate. It is the only existing member of the genus
Daubentonia and is classified as “Endangered” by the IUCN.
◈ The French naturalist Pierre Sonnerat was the first to use the vernacular name
“X" in 1782. According to Sonnerat, the name “X" was a "cri d'exclamation &
d'étonnement" (cry of exclamation and astonishment) on seeing this strange
creature.
◈ Another hypothesis proposed by Simons and Meyers in 2001 is that it derives
from "heh heh", which is Malagasy for "I don't know". If correct, then the name
might have originated from Malagasy people saying "heh heh" to avoid saying the
name of a feared, magical animal.
◈ Name the animal X. Where is it found?

20
◈ Lead guitarist and founding member of The Rolling
Stones, Keith Richards entered the list of bizarre
celebrity insurance policies when he insured a body part
for 1.6 million dollars.
◈ A common misconception is that it is because of his
profession and role in the band, but is actually attributed
to a rude habit of his while on stage, or in front of a
photographer.
◈ What body part did he insure?

21
◈ _____ ______ is a land of beautiful yet dangerous extremes. There are mountains
that reach more than 3000 meters into the sky. There is a place called Badwater
that is the lowest area of land in the Western Hemisphere.
◈ It was given its forbidding name by a group of pioneers lost here in the winter of
1849-1850, while trying to cross it. Even though only one of the group died here,
they all assumed that this place would be their grave. They were rescued by two
of their young men, William Lewis Manly and John Rogers, who had learned to be
scouts. As the party climbed out over the Panamint Mountains, one of the men
turned, looked back, and said “Goodbye, _____ ______.”
◈ FITB. Also, why were these people trying to cross this dangerous place?

◈ Death Valley
◈ California Gold Rush

22
◈ National Geographic described the reaction to the design of X as "love
at second sight." An article in Le Figaro declared “Y has its own
monster, just like the one in Loch Ness."
◈ But two decades later, The New York Times noted that the design
"turned the architecture world upside down" and that "Mr. Rogers (the
architect) earned a reputation as a high-tech iconoclast with the
completion of the X in 1977, with its exposed skeleton of brightly
coloured tubes for mechanical systems.”
◈ A 2007 Academy Award winning film had a character named after the
same person, who gives his name to X. This character was a pastry
chef at a famous restaurant in Y.
◈ Name the building X, and the city Y. Also, name the film.

◈ X- Centre Georges Pompidou
◈ Y- Paris
◈ Ratatouille

23
◈ X, buffed until it shines like a black mirror, is made from naturally
occuring volcanic glass.
◈ Hallucinating Aztec priests used to slick their bodies with black
ointment and stare into black X slabs, falling into trances they claimed
revealed the future. They used to perform sacrifices with X blades,
offering up hearts to the supreme deity Tezcatlipoca, a fearsome
warrior depicted with a black X mirror hovering over his head.
◈ The word X has recently been on certain geeky social media pages
since a character in a recent blockbuster superhero movie had the
word X in his name.
◈ Give X. Also name the movie character.

◈ X- Obsidian
◈ Cull Obsidian/Black Dwarf

24
◈ In the New York World’s Fair in 1939, the artist X installed a highly controversial
and deranged underwater exhibit titled “Dream of _____”.
◈ It featured a hired actress as _____, lying topless on a gigantic red satin bed
strewn with lobsters and champagne bottles, while her “dream”, visible through a
window was played out in a giant aquarium by women dressed as mermaids. At
the entrance, he had hung an image of a famous painting Y, featuring _____
made over with a fish-head torso.
◈ When the officials asked him to take it down, he retaliated by hiring a plane to
shower the city with copies of a ranting manifesto titled “Declaration of the
Independence of the Imagination and the Rights of Man to His Own Madness”
which stated that “It is man’s right to love women with ecstatic fish heads.”
◈ Name X. Name the painting Y and its painter.

◈ X- Salvador Dali
◈ Y- The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

25
◈ The Lateran Pacts of 1929 or Lateran Accords were agreements made in 1929
between the Kingdom of Italy and the Holy See. They are named after the Lateran
Palace and the adjoining Archbasilica of St. John Lateran in Rome, where they
were signed. The Italian government, at the time led by Prime Minister Benito
Mussolini, agreed to give the Roman Catholic Church financial compensation for
the loss of the Papal States. In 1947, the Lateran Treaty (one of the accords) was
recognized in the Constitution of Italy as regulating the relations between the
State and the Catholic Church.
◈ The Pope, in spite of being the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church, does not
exercise his powers from the supposed “Home of Christianity”- St. Peter’s
Basilica. Instead, the seat of The Pope is the Archbasilica of St. John lateran, and
the reason for this also came from the Lateran Accords.
◈ What well-known entity emerged as a result of the Lateran Treaty? Why is the
Archbasilica of St. John Lateran the seat of The Pope?

◈ Vatican City
◈ The Pope is actually the Bishop
of Rome, who is the ex-officio
leader of the Catholic Church,
and the Archbasilica of St.
John Lateran is the seat of the
Diocese of Rome

Rules
◈ 5 questions, each consisting of a clue for the long
connect.
◈ The clue can be in the question or the answer.
◈ +10/0 for each answer. Answers only on pounce.
◈ Points for long connect will be displayed on the question
slide.
◈ Teams can pounce infinite number of times for the long
connect.

1- +50/-40
◈ Transnistria is a thin strip of land in Moldova, wedged between
the Dniester river and Ukraine. The people there celebrate their
love for all things ______.
◈ When Moldova and its neighboring countries are trying to move
away from this, the people of this region embrace it, and glorify
it. From the signposts on the streets to the architecture, from
the posters hanging on all office walls to the culture and
cuisine, all are distinctly ______.
◈ FITB.

2- +40/-30
◈ In the late 19th century, through a succession of treaties with the powerful Somali
Sultanates, the British and Italian empires gained control of parts of the coast and
established the colonies of British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland.
◈ Throughout the past 150 years, the historically Italian Somaliland (present day
Somali Republic) has been ravaged by numerous civil wars, militia uprisings and
changes in territorial boundaries, but the region which historically was the British
Somaliland (present day Somaliland) has always remained as it is, and relatively
civil war free.
◈ This civil war was the topic of a highly acclaimed book by Mark Bowden, which
has been made into an Academy Award winning film by Ridley Scott, and a
popular video game series also had a version based on it.
◈ Give a 3 word name connecting the book, movie and the game.

3- +30/-20
◈ Krubera Cave in the Arabika Massif of the Gagra Range of the Western
Caucasus, in the Abkhazia region of Georgia held the record of being
the “______ __ ___ _____”, until earlier this year, when the Veryovkina
Cave located in the same region broke the record it held.
◈ Descending into Krubera, one team member had reportedly said, “It
was like climbing an inverted Mount Everest.”
◈ FITB.

4- +20/-10
◈ Very symbolic of the geopolitical situation of the region,
this flag and Coat of Arms belong to which place?

5- +10/0
◈ Qarabağ Futbol Klubu, commonly known as Qarabağ is an
Azerbaijani football club playing in the Azerbaijan Premier League.
Qarabağ have won the Premier League six times and Azerbaijan
Cup six times. Qarabağ became the first Azerbaijani team to advance
to the group stage of the UEFA Champions League, in the 2017–18
season.
◈ One peculiar fact about this club is that it is no more based in its city of
origin. The club originates from Agdam, in the X region of Azerbaijan, a
city which was ruined and abandoned in 1993 following the X war, and
is hence now based in Baku, the capital.
◈ The name of the club is derived from the name of the region X. Name
the region X.

Long Connect- Answer
◈ They are all unrecognised/partially recognised countries,
currently in conflict with their parent countries
• Transnistria
• Somaliland
• Republic of Abkhazia
• Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
• Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic)

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