Another all encompassing quiz prepared by Medical Cadet Saraswat Chatterjee. This nomenclature follows the Green Day album naming protocol.

1. RANDOM STUFF QUIZ
SARASWAT

2. RULES
 35 questions and one long connect.
 Infinite bounce.
 +10 on direct or pass.
 +10/-10 on pounces. Infinite pounces.
 Enjoy!

3. 1
 X is a famous tourist destination in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss Alps.
 It is located in Bodeli, between Lake Thun and Lake Brienz, and derives its name
from its geographical location.
 Deep Purple famously performed here on an open air
stage in 1995.
 Name X.

4. Answer

5. INTERLAKEN

6. 2
 Who is the
person who
has been
blacked out
in this comic
strip?

7. Answer

8. THOR

9. 3
 What famous location is
this Google Earth image
showing? (which is hidden
behind the red block)

10. Answer

11. BRANDENBURG GATE

12. 4
 X is a large, bipedal fictional creature with a thick tail. It has a brown hide with several
raised patches, and a cream coloured belly. It has large cream coloured ears and red
eyes, a short and rounded snout, with two protruding pointed teeth.
 It is based on the real life animal, Y, with elements of Mongolian laminar armour, evident
in its helmet-like plate with ear flaps and its epaulettes.
 Hence its name has been derived from Y, and the person Z, whose character this creature
matches- spurts of violent rage.
 Name the fictional creature X, and/or Y and Z.

13. Answer

14. KANGASKHAN

15. 5
 X liked the work of 24-year-old John Pasche, who accepted £50 (about $77) to
create the artwork. The story goes that X wanted a likeness of Kali, the Hindu
goddess of everlasting energy. Pasche found greater inspiration in X himself,
rather than Kali.
 "I went into this sort of wood-paneled boardroom and there he was," Pasche said.
"Face-to-face with him, the first thing you were aware of was the size of his lips
and mouth.“
 What did this lead to? Also, give X.

16. Answer

17. LIPS AND TONGUE LOGO OF ROLLING STONES
X- MICK JAGGER

18. 6
 During the early days of World War II, the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence suspected
that Italian and German agents were entering the United States through New York, and
that these facilities were susceptible to sabotage. The loss of SS Normandie in February
1942, especially, raised fears and suspicions in the Navy about possible sabotage in the
Eastern ports. A Navy Intelligence Unit, B3, assigned more than a hundred agents to
investigate possible Benito Mussolini supporters within the population on the
waterfront. Their efforts were fruitless.
 The Navy contacted Meyer Lansky, a known associate of X about a deal with X. The
State of New York, X and the U.S. Navy struck a deal in which X guaranteed full
assistance in providing intelligence to the Navy. In addition, X allegedly guaranteed no
dockworker strikes throughout the war.
 Id X.

19. Answer

20. THE ITALIAN MAFIA

21. 7
 In the south-east of Romania, in Constanța, there lies a barren featureless plain. Below it lies a
cave that has remained isolated for 5.5 million years. Despite a complete absence of light and a
poisonous atmosphere, the cave is crawling with life. There are unique spiders, scorpions,
woodlice and centipedes, many never before seen by humans, and all of them owe their lives to a
strange floating mat of bacteria.
 To enter, you must first lower yourself by rope 20m down a narrow shaft dug into the ground.
The only light is from your helmet, which bounces around the walls as you descend. You must
then climb down through narrow limestone tunnels coated in an ochre clay, in pitch darkness and
temperatures of 25 °C. These paths eventually open out into a central cavern containing a lake.
In the lake room, the atmosphere is heavy with harmful gases, principally carbon dioxide as well
as the hydrogen sulphide from the water.
 Despite the dark and the dangerous gases, Movile Cave is crawling with life. So far 48 species
have been identified, including 33 found nowhere else in the world.
 How is this cave unique, in environmental terms? (Class 10 EVS might come handy)

23. Answer

24. ONLY LAND ECOSYSTEM ON EARTH
WITH NO PHOTOSYNTHESIS

25. 8
 This beverage has different names in different parts of India.
 In the Eastern parts (Bengal, Jharkhand, Orissa, Assam), it is called X, which has been
derived from the Mandarin name of this beverage, and is quite similar sounding to
the Mandarin word. Interestingly, the Portugese also use the term X, who also got that
term through their maritime trade with China.
 In most parts of Northern and Western Indian though, the term Y is used, whose roots
are unclear, but it is similar to the Slavic name of this beverage, and hence Y sounds
similar to the words used by Slovaks, Latvians, Slovenians, Lithuanians, Bulgarians and
other Slavic populations.
 X and Y sound quite similar, and differ in a single vowel, when written in English. Give
X and Y.

26. Answer

27. X- CHA
Y- CHAI

28. 9
 Listen to the audio.
 This is X, reciting a poem by Y, in the occasion of Z. Y was the favourite poet of
someone, who is the main person concerning the occasion Z. This person was
also a great friend and colleague of X. Even we have fond memories of these two
people together. All three were hugely famous, being forerunners in being called
the “Greatest Ever” in their respective fields.
 Give X,Y and Z.

29. Answer

30. X- GREGORY PECK
Y- RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Z- DEATH OF AUDREY HEPBURN

31. 10
 When X were first invented, in the 14th century, they were displayed in public places,
usually on cathedrals. Most were only ornamental at first.
 They were of special value to the common people, who were almost universally
illiterate. Most peasants, even in Italy, could not read Roman numerals, and most
importantly, did not know how to subtract. They performed calculations by counting
fingers or drawing slash marks.
 This was the reason for a specific form of depiction of something on these X. The
depiction could have been in two forms, but since illiterate people would be unable to
comprehend, the simpler form was taken. Now they have been replaced by the other
form, with advances in literacy, and globalisation, but some of the older forms still
exist.
 What am I talking about?

32. Answer

33. CLOCKS WITH ROMAN NUMERALS SHOWING
4 AS IIII AND NOT AS IV

34. 11
 The term X itself originated in the 16th century. One of the first written accounts
of it was in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor when the character of
Falstaff demands – “Go fetch me a quart of sack; put a ______ in’t.” To translate,
he’s asking for a great deal of wine with a piece of _______ in it. It was actually
quite a common practice at the time. This is thought to be due to the quality of
wine in the past- it was in many cases inferior to our modern vintages. Thus,
placing a piece of _______ within a jug was supposed to soak up some of the
acidity and improve the flavour.
 Over the centuries, this term has transformed, and now refers to a different
custom, with very weak links to the origin of the term.
 Give X.

35. Answer

36. TOAST

37. 12
 X is the only word in the English language, which is derived from the ancient Mayan
language.
 It is derived from the Mayan word “Xoc”. One of the first mentions of the word in
a dictionary, is in an anonymous work from 1689, which defines a X as a “shifting
knave”. In other words, a crook, dodgy sort or general all-round bad guy.
 Bailey’s Dictionary in 1724 used “scearan” as the likely origin for the word: a saxon term
meaning “cut to pieces”. Webster took a different tack in his 1828 dictionary, accepting
a theory that it comes from the Greek word “carcharias”,meaning “sharp tooth”, even
though that word clearly has a typical Greek hard “c” sound, not the soft start of X.
These days, Oxford English Dictionary just says “of obscure origin”.
 Give X.

38. Answer

39. SHARK

40. 13
 This photo was taken during the opening ceremony of the Estadio De Luz, in Lisbon, in
2003.
 For many years, this photo was popularised to have been taken from a game between X
and Manchester United. Fans of X have been known to call their home stadium as “hell”,
flooding the stadium with the home colours of red and yellow, to intimidate opponents,
and this internet hoax just added to that.
 This became one of the biggest internet hoaxes related to the footballing world ever,
until New York Times writer Graham Ruthven openly pointed out the hoax. Even today, a
Google search with the keywords “X devil” will show different resolutions of this same
image, and many more pages, praising the efforts of X fans to have created this effect!
 Give the name of the club X.

42. Answer

43. GALATASARAY

44. 14
 In 1945, X and Y embarked upon a formidable collaboration — to create a six-minute
sequence combining animation with live dancers, in the process, inventing a new
animation technique inspired by Freud’s work. The film, titled Destino, tells the tragic
love story of Chronos, the personification of time, who falls in love with a mortal
woman as the two float across the surrealist landscapes of _____________. The poetic,
wordless animation features a score by Mexican composer Armando Dominguez
performed by Dora Luz. The project was abandoned, but in 2003, Y’s cousin completed
and released it.
 As fascinating as the film itself is the juxtaposition of the two creative geniuses behind
it, each bringing his own life-lens to the project — X described the film as “A magical
display of the problem of life in the labyrinth of time” and Y called it “A simple story
about a young girl in search of true love.”
 Who are X and Y?

45.  There was a video here. Slideshare refused to cooperate. :/ Sorry for the
inconvenience.

46. Answer

47. X- SALVADOR DALI
Y- WALT DISNEY

48. 15
 Sergeant Kevin R. Briggs (also known as
the Guardian of the ______ ______ ______) is
a California Highway Patrol Officer who holds a
strange distinction. Briggs retired in late 2013 from
the California Highway Patrol and spends his time
as a Global Professional Speaker focusing on Crisis
Management and Leadership Skills through his
company, Pivotal Points.
 He has handled over 200 cases, about twice every
month since 1994, and has succeeded almost
every time, with only 2 failures.
 What were his usual cases?

49. Answer

50. HE PREVENTED OVER 200 PEOPLE FROM
COMMITTING SUICIDE BY JUMPING FROM THE
GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE
 He is known as the Guardian of the
Golden Gate Bridge.

51. 16
 Real-life naval-intelligence officer Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming, in 1909, was a
founder of Britain’s Secret Service Bureau.
 He was well known for initialing documents with the letter “C”. After his death, the
letter came to stand for “Chief,” and other Secret Service heads used it too.
 Other than this, Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming has also contributed to the field of
literature, unknowingly, in a similar manner.
 What sort of contribution am I talking about?

52. Answer

53. HIS NAME’S FIRST LETTER HAS BEEN USED FOR
THE CODENAME “M” IN JAMES BOND NOVELS

54. 17
 Nestled in the magnificent Nallamala Hills in Andhra Pradesh, Ahobilam is the stronghold of the powerful deity X. The town is split into
two levels- Eguva (Upper) Ahobilam and Diguva (Lower) Ahobilam. There are 10 shrines in this area-
• Ugra X Temple- The X here is “Ugra”, a roused, fierce God, whose idol is believed to be self-manifest, and not carved by humans.
• Lakshmi X Temple- The X here is in the “Shanta” mode, a becalmed God, beatific and munificent.
• Bhargava X Temple- Placed near a pond where sage Bhargava had prayed.
• Yogananda X Temple- This has the God in the classic yogic posture, the padmasana.
• Chatravata X Temple- This houses a joyous form of X, with a smile on his face, while his left hand keeps “Taala” or rhythm.
• Kroda/Varaha X Temple- The idol here is a combination of Varaha and X, and depicts the God in the form of a boar, carrying Earth on its
shoulders.
• Karanja X Temple- It is said that Hanuman meditated here, but when X appeared to reward him, Hanuman refused to recognise his God
in any form other than Rama’s. As a concession, X donned Rama’s characteristic weapon, the bow, and that is how the idol in this temple
looks like.
• Malola X Temple- Here, X is in a genial, romantic mood, with Goddess Lakshmi on his knees.
• Jwala X Temple- Legend says that this is the place where X had carried out his great task, for which he was sent. A small pond called
Raktakundam is nearby, where X had washed his body after the task.
• Pavana X Temple- The jewel of the pilgrimage, the most difficult to access, and here, X is worshipped by Shakta rites, and animal
sacrifices are routine.
► Who is this deity X?

56. Answer

57. NARSIMHA

58. 18
 The story goes, that Captain Hanson Gregory was at the helm of his ship, eating
what was then known as an Olykoek (Dutch), when stormy weather arose.
 Gregory, needing both hands to steer the ship, spontaneously rammed the
Olykoek over one of the spokes of the steering wheel, and was impressed with his
own creativity.
 This is the supposed origin of what practice, which continues even today?

59. Answer

60. MAKING DOUGHNUTS WITH HOLES

61. 19
 The Pole of Inaccessibility marks the point on Antarctica that is furthest from the
ocean. At 3718 meters above sea-level it is in the Australian zone and seldom
visited.
 In December 1958 Soviet scientists responded to the US's construction of the
Amundsen-Scott station at the South Pole by building a research station at the
Pole of Inaccessibility.
 They fixed a plastic X to the roof before they left, two weeks later. Today, after
years of snow storms, the plastic X is the only visible part of the research station,
the rest buried deep under the layers of ice.
 What is X?

62. Answer

63. BUST OF LENIN

64. 20
 This is an
episode from
Modern Family.
 It has been
made as a
tribute to which
famous
masterpiece?

65. Answer
 There was a video here. Slideshare refused to cooperate. :/ Sorry for the
inconvenience.

66. THE GODFATHER

67. 21
 The village of Čížov is a tiny settlement between the historic town of Vranov nad Dyjí
and the city of Znojmo in the Czech Republic. Čížov is situated in the flats above the
Dyje valley. Walking out of the valley, one comes across a dead straight asphalt path
leading towards this village. Walking to Čížov, the nature of the straight path is soon
confirmed. A tall metal watchtower becomes visible, and then, in the village, the fence
comes into view, perhaps 200 metres long, with wooden T-shaped poles, lined with
now rusty barbed wire, both horizontally along the fence, and vertically at the top.
 A similar fence is also found in Devínska Nová Ves, a borough of Bratislava, the capital
of Slovakia, but is just a few metres long.
 What are these fences?

69. Answer

70. ONLY REMAINS OF THE IRON CURTAIN

71. 22
 In this photo, you can see Pope John Paul II forgiving
Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish assassin, in an Italian prison cell,
after an infamous incident.
 Agca has described himself as a mercenary with no political
orientation, although he is known to have been a member
of the Turkish ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves organization.
 On December 27, 2014, 33 years after his crime, Mehmet Ali
Agca publicly showed up at the Vatican to lay white roses
on the recently canonized Saint John Paul II's tomb.
 What infamous crime had he committed?

72. Answer

73. HE HAD ATTEMPTED TO ASSASSINATED
POPE JOHN PAUL II HIMSELF!

74. 23
 In the year 2000, it was impossible to avoid the question “_____ _____ ____ _____
_____?”
 Apparently, “______” aren’t exactly who we thought they were. We thought that it
was possibly about a club filled with ugly girls. Apparently, it isn’t about
_____ or girls.
 Here we thought it was about badly-behaved, misogynistic men talking about
how the girls at a club aren’t pretty enough, and it’s actually written about those
kinds of men! It is actually about female empowerment. Its about shutting down
cat-callers.
 What “question” am I talking about?

75. Answer

76. WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?

77. 24
 Amul Girl here is pleading for the cessation of a famous conflict. Give the word
which has been blacked out.

78. Answer

79. AVIV

80. 25
 Durind the 1918-19, items, never heard of before were being sold in markets in
the United States.
 “Liberty sausage”, “Liberty cabbage” were being bought and consumed at a
steady rate.
 Another new term came up called “Liberty dog”.
 What did these terms refer to?/What were these items?/Why were such names
used?

81. Answer

82. FRANKFURTER, SAUERKRAUT AND
GERMAN SHEPHERD
 Items with German names were renamed, so that Americans could use them
proudly.

83. 26
 This is a graph depicting a
correlation between two
completely unrelated modalities. A
random study showed that
countries which consumed more X,
produced more number of Nobel
Laureates.
 Along Y axis is “Number of Nobel
Laureates per 10 million
population” and along X axis is “X
consumption (kg/yr/capita)”.
 Give X.

84. Answer

85. CHOCOLATES

86. 27
 This is a June 1944 map of the Enfola peninsula
in Italy.
 The military forces of Free France carried out
Operation Brassard, here, in 1944, which left
400 French soldiers dead, and 600 were
wounded.
 This operation allowed the Free French to land
on the Island of Elba, and conquer it.
 How has “Operation Brassard” been
immortalised?

87. Answer

88. GUNS OF NAVARONE WAS INSPIRED BY
THIS

89. 28
 X is a slogan used to express determination to defend a position against an
enemy. It was most famously used during the Battle of Verdun in the First World
War by French General Robert Nivelle and also appeared on propaganda posters.
It was also used during the Spanish Civil War.
 A very famous fictional fantasy character used it in an iconic scene in a 2001
movie.
 What phrase am I talking about?

90. Answer

91. YOU SHALL NOT PASS

92. 29
 X, originally a noun (1560s), from Italian ________(through Middle French), literally "of a cave", is
a word which originally referred to an extravagant style of Ancient Roman decorative art
rediscovered and then copied in Rome at the end of the 15th century. The word first was used
of paintings found on the walls of basements of Roman ruins. These "caves" were in fact rooms
and corridors of the Domus Aurea, the unfinished palace complex started by Nero after
the Great Fire of Rome in CE 64, which had become overgrown and buried, until they were
broken into again, mostly from above. Spreading from Italian to the other European languages,
the term was long used largely interchangeably with arabesque and Moresque for types of
decorative patterns using curving foliage elements.
 Since at least the 18th century (in French and German as well as English), X has come to be used
as a general adjective to describe something, and its usage is different from what is described
above. In art, performance, and literature, however, X may also refer to something that
simultaneously invokes in an audience a feeling of uncomfortable bizarreness as well
as sympathetic pity.
 Give X.

93. Answer

94. GROTESQUE

95. 30
 What is this a list of?
The Politician, the Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant
The Giant Rat of Sumatra
The Disappearance of Mr. James Phillimore
The Case of Isadora Persano and the Remarkable Worm
The Dreadful Business of the Abernetty Family
The Amateur Mendicant Society
The Singular Affair of the Aluminum Crutch
The Arrest of Wilson, the Notorious Canary-Trainer
Ricoletti of the Club Foot and His Abominable Wife
Colonel Warburton's Madness
The Repulsive Story of the Red Leech

96. Answer

97. UNTOLD CASES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

98. 31
 X was in a relationship with Bikini Kill drummer Tobi Vail, who subsequently broke up with
him. Tobi used to wear a deodorant called ______ _______; the band's singer Kathleen
Hanna(who was jealous of the relationship), used to talk about X having Tobi's scent on
him, which resulted in a peculiar graffiti in X's room one day. As Hanna herself explained,
she ended up in X's apartment one night and "smashed a bunch of shit. I took out a
Sharpie marker and I wrote all over his bedroom wall - it was a rental so it was really kind
of lame that I did that," she said. "I passed out with the marker in my hand, and woke up
hung over." Six months later, X phoned Kathleen to ask her if he could use some of her wall
scribbles as song lyrics. "I thought, how is he going to use ‘____ _____ ____ _____ ______' as a
lyric?" she added.
 He did use the wall scribbles, resulting in one of the most iconic rock songs of all time.
 Which song? And who is X?

99. Answer

100. SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT
X- KURT COBAIN

101. 32
 During World War II, the U.S. Navy operated from hundreds of isolated airfields
located on atolls in the Pacific. Naval Construction Battalions (Seabees) carved
these fields with excavators and tractors along on the edge of dense jungle and
these heavy equipment operators often had to fight as they built—Japanese
holdouts could come barreling out of the tree line at any time to attack them in
an effort to disrupt the war effort.
 In response, US Navy Capt. Stanley Martyn Haight designed a last line of self-
defense for these operators, something they could wear while on the job and
have at least a hope of fighting off a close range attacker. Hence, the Segley OSS
was invented.
 What was the most iconic use of the Segley OSS?

102. Answer

103. INGLORIOUS BASTERDS GLOVE GUN
SCENE

104. 33
 The Rock of Gibraltar is the northern X.
 The identity of the southern X has been disputed throughout history, with the two
most likely candidates being Monte Hacho in Ceuta and Jebel Musa in Morocco.
 What am I talking about?/What are the northern and southern Xs?

105. Answer

106. PILLARS OF HERCULES

107. 34
 This is an insect belonging to the Phillidae family, called X
Deva locally.
 It is found in a very specific place in India, and not found
anywhere else in the world.
 Rudolf Steiner, the father of biodynamic agriculture had
stated in the 1920's that if agricultural practices are truly
holistic, then the principal crop will be reflected in
mimicry. Hence, any worker in that area, who finds a X
Deva is handed 1 lakh rupees immediately by the
landowner, as this insect is believed to be a blessing from
nature.
 Give X, and/or the specific place where this insect is found.

108. Answer

109. TEA DEVA
FOUND IN TEA GARDENS
 Found only in Makaibari Tea Estate in Kurseong, Darjeeling.

110. 35
 The great batsman X was playing the last test of his illustrious test career in
Sydney. It was the fourth in the series between India and Australia. X was waging
a great battle to save his country from defeat.
 The 19-year old wicket keeper Y, just a new entrant into international cricket, told
X from behind the wickets, “Come on X, just one more of your popular slog
sweeps before you quit.” X turned back and replied, “Look buddy, show a bit of
respect. You were in nappies when I debuted eighteen years ago.”
 Who are X and Y?

111. Answer

112. X- STEVE WAUGH
Y- PARTHIV PATEL

113. LONG CONNECT
 5 questions
 Answers to be written in pounce format.
 10 points for every correct answer. No negatives.
 Points for guessing long connect will be flashed on question slide.

114. +50/-40
 In the book “Quidditch Through The Ages” by Kennilworthy Whisp (J.K. Rowling
actually), Whisp mentions in the first chapter, how the flying broomstick emerged.
 He asks, “Why didn’t we choose to produce flying barrels, flying armchairs, flying
bathtubs-why brooms? Why didn’t we adopt the X, so beloved of our Eastern
brethren?”
 X is also mentioned in other parts of the Harry Potter series, when Arthur Weasley
had to stop one Ali Basher from smuggling X into England.
 What is X?

115. Answer

116. MAGIC CARPET

117. +40/-30
 The idea of ‘X’ing is ancient. In the 16th century, a X was very different from our
modern perception and stems from the medieval 'ceremony of the void'. After
dinner, the guests would stand and drink sweet wine and spices while the table
was cleared, or ‘voided’. During the 16th century, guests would no longer stand in
the great chamber whilst the table was cleared and the room prepared for
entertainment, but would retire to the parlour or ‘X’ing room.
 Today, ‘X’s serve many purposes from training sessions, to formal business
dinners. Business ‘X’s are a popular way to strengthen bonds between
businessmen and their partners. It is common that a X is organized at the end of
an academic conference.
 Give X.

118. Answer

119. BANQUET

120. +30/-20
 My first is a hundred, my second is a sign of the Zodiac, my third is a Hibernian
(Irishman), my fourth is the Egyptian God of the sun, and Julius Caesar loves my
whole!
 Who/What am I?

121. Answer

122. CLEOPATRA

123. +20/-10
 The Roman historian Jordanes provides an important source of knowledge of the X in his Getica, a semi-
fictional account written in the 6th century. Jordanes describes the migration of the X from
southern Scandza (Scandinavia), into ________ – believed to be the lower Vistula region in
modern Pomerania – and from there to the coast of the Black Sea.
 In the 3rd century the X crossed either the lower Danube or the Black Sea, ravaged
the Balkans and Anatolia as far as Cyprus, and sacked Athens, Byzantium, and Sparta. By the 4th century
the X had captured Dacia and divided into at least two distinct groups separated by the Dniester River:
the Thervingi (led by the Balti dynasty) and the Greuthungi (led by the Amali dynasty).
 The X dominated a vast area, which at its peak under the King Ermanaric and his sub-
king Athanaric possibly extended all the way from the Danube to the Ural Mountains, and from
the Black to the Baltic Sea.
 Who were X?

124. Answer

125. GOTHS

126. +10/0
 After being ruled by the Republic of Genoa since 1284, X was briefly an
independent X Republic from 1755 until it was conquered by France in 1769. Due
to X's historical ties with the Italian peninsula, the island retains to this day many
elements of the culture of Italy. The native language, whose northern variant is
closely related to the Italian language, is recognised as a regional language by the
French government.
 Napoleon was born in 1769 in the X capital of Ajaccio. His ancestral
home, Maison Bonaparte, is today used as a museum.
 Give the name of the place X.

127. Answer

128. CORSICA

129. Any guesses for long connect?

130. NAMES OF ASTERIX COMICS

131. Scores

132. THANK YOU