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The Battle of the Schools
-Finals-
By:
Devang Mehta
Questions courtesy:
Anchit Bhagat
Khalil Dalvi
Sukalp Muzumdar
Maaruthy Kumaar
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2. Rules
• Infinite Pounce- Fastest pounce gets to answer.
• No Pounce limit
• Spotters decision final
• 10 points per questions.
• Clue on request, if no objections.
• 25 questions clockwise, then 2 theme rounds, 25
questions anti-clockwise, 1 video and 1 LVC
• Quizmaster is God

3. Infinite Pounce
Clockwise

4. Q1
• Although the character is quite unintelligent in the first
series, he is increasingly clever and perceptive in
subsequent generations (while decreasing in social
status). X though is a cynical, cowardly opportunist
concerned with maintaining and increasing his own
status and fortunes, regardless of his surroundings.
Although each series is set in a different era, all follow
the fortunes X who in each is a member of a British
family dynasty present at many significant periods and
places in British history. Who is X?

5. • Blackadder

6. Q2
• In 1940, X was placed in the reserve medical
corps, after which he served with the 5th SS
Panzergrenadier Division Wiking in the Eastern
Front. In 1942, he was wounded at the Soviet
front and was pronounced medically unfit for
combat, and was then promoted to the rank
of SS-Hauptsturmführer (Captain) for saving the
lives of three German soldiers. But X was known
for a more sinister purpose and was a war
criminal who evaded the clutches of the
authorities. Who is X?

7. • Josef Mengele aka the “Angel of Death”

8. Q3
• Connect

9. • Characters portrayed by Gary Oldman

10. Part points Q4
• X is a novel written in 1931 by Y and published in 1932. Set in London of AD
2540 (632 A.F. in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive
technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society. The future
society is an embodiment of the ideals that form the basis of futurology. X has
been banned and challenged at various times. In 1932, the book was banned in
Ireland for its language, and for supposedly being anti-family and anti-religion.
• The American Library Association ranks X as No. 52 on their list of most
challenged books. In 1980, it was removed from classrooms in Miller,
Missouri among other challenges. In 1993, an unsuccessful attempt was made
to remove the novel from a California school's required reading list because it
"centered around negative activity”.
• The book was banned in India in 1967 with Y accused of being a
"pornographer."
• In 1982, Polish author Antoni Smuszkiewicz in his book Zaczarowana
gra presented accusations of plagiarism against Y. Smuszkiewicz presented
similarities between X and two science fiction novels written by Polish
author Mieczysław Smolarski namely Miasto światłości (The City of the Sun,
1924) and Podróż poślubna pana Hamiltona (The Honeymoon Trip of Mr.
Hamilton,1928). Identify X and Y

11. • X: Brave New World
• Y: Aldous Huxley

12. Q5
Connect

13. • Qatar Investment Authority

14. Q6
• The X is a live theater on Hollywood Boulevard in the
Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Since its opening on
November 9, 2001, the theatre has been the home of the
annual Academy Awards ceremonies (the Oscars),
which were first held there in March 2002, and is the first
permanent home for the awards. Since 2002, the theater
was also the home for American Idol.
• In 2012, Y filed for bankruptcy protection and its
sponsorship of the theatre ended. The theatre's name
was then changed to X under the suggestion of the
venue's landlord.
• ID X and Y.

15. The Kodak Theatre is now the
Hollywood & Highland Theatre

16. Q7
• The origin of the X has been lost. It is thought that originally a red flag was
used to signal that no quarter would be given. This red flag was called ‘pretty
red ’ in French, and may have been corrupted into English as the X.
• Not everyone agrees on this. Another theory states that ”X" is an English
corruption of "Ali Raja," supposedly a 17th century Tamil pirate. Yet another
theory is that it was taken from a nickname for the devil.
• Following the introduction of submarines in several navies, Admiral Sir Arthur
Wilson, the First Sea Lord of the British Royal Navy, stated that submarines
were "underhand, unfair, and damned un-English", and that he would
convince the British Admiralty to have the crews of enemy submarines
captured during wartime be hanged.
• In September 1914, the British submarine HMS E9 successfully torpedoed
the German criuser SMS Hela. Remembering Wilson's statements,
commanding officer Max Horton instructed his sailors to manufacture a X,
which was flown from the submarine as she entered port. Each successful
patrol saw Horton's submarine fly an additional Xuntil there was no more
room for flags, at which point Horton then had a large X manufactured, onto
which symbols indicating E9's achievements were sewn
• ID X (Exact Term).

17. The Jolly Roger

18. Q8
• Nell was an late 19th to early 20th century nickname for a
female horse. It was particularly applied to one hitched to a
wagon or buggy, probably because those mares were either the
only one owned by the household or were the horse most
tamed for the harness. Remember, this was the world before
and on the cusp of the automobile. A horse was very important
for transportation. Being close to the family, much like a pet, the
horse would tend to be called by a name; a common name for a
mare was Nell, or at least it was common enough that if you
referred to a mare, you might use the term Nell. Horses can be
jumpy or anxious in novel or quickly changing situations, a
characteristic of the crowding of small towns and cities during
this era. The horse could always be surprised or frightened by
something around the next corner, or the ever changing activity
around them.
• What term came to be applied to a horse when it became jumpy
in these situations?

19. • Nervous Nellie!

20. Q9
Put Funda
Notice!
Travellers intending to embark on the Atlantic
voyage are reminded that a state of war exists
between Germany and her allies and Great
Britain and her allies; that the zone of war
includes the waters adjacent to the British Isles;
that, in accordance with formal notice given by
the Imperial German Government, vessels flying
the flag of Great Britain, or any of her allies, are
liable to destruction in those waters and that
travellers sailing in the war zone on the ships of
Great Britain or her allies do so at their own risk.
Imperial German Embassy
Washington, D.C. 22nd April 1915

21. • Sinking of the Lusitania

22. Q10
Put Funda and FITB for 2 bonus points each. (exhaustive)
• The Deer Hunter • The Bridges of Madison
• _________ County
• The French Lieutenant’s • One True Thing
Woman • Music of the Heart
• _________ • Adaptation
• Silkwood • _______________
• Out of Africa • Doubt
• Ironweed • Julie and Julia
• A Cry in the Dark • _________________
• Postcards from the Edge

23. Meryl Streep’s 17
Oscar nominations.
FITB:
Sophie’s Choice
Kramer v Kramer
Devil wears Prada
Iron Lady

24. Q11
Connect (very, very specific)
Prince Ahmed and
his two sisters

25. • These are stories which were added to the Arabian
Nights on translation. They were never a part of the
original Arabic collection.
• "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor""
• "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp",
• "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”
• "Prince Ahmed and his Two Sisters".

26. Q12
• The following is an excerpt from the pamphlet,
“Introduction to Outer Space“ published on March 26,
1958 by the Presidential Science Advisory Committee.
It is useful to distinguish among four factors which give importance,
urgency, and inevitability to the advancement of space technology.
The first of these factors is the compelling urge of man to explore and to
discover, the thrust of curiosity that leads men to try to go where no
one has gone before. Most of the surface of the earth has now been
explored and men now turn to the exploration of outer space as their
next objective.

27. • Star Trek:
• “Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the
starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange
new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to
boldly go where no man has gone before.”
It is useful to distinguish among four factors which give importance, urgency, and inevitability
to the advancement of space technology.
The first of these factors is the compelling urge of man to explore and to discover, the thrust of
curiosity that leads men to try to go where no one has gone before . Most
of the surface of the earth has now been explored and men now turn to the exploration of
outer space as their next objective

28. Q13
• The term “X" is used as a derogatory epithet for an excessively
subservient person, particularly when that person perceives their own
lower-class status based on race. It is similarly used to negatively
describe a person who betrays their own group by participating in its
oppression, whether or not they do so willingly.
• The popular negative connotation of ”X" has largely been attributed to
numerous derivative works inspired by “Y” in the decade after its
release, rather than the original novel itself, whose title character is a
more positive figure. These works lampooned and distorted the
portrayal of “X” with politically loaded overtones.
• Minstrel show retellings in particular, usually performed by white men in
blackface, tended to be derisive and pro-slavery, transforming “X” from
Christian martyr to a fool or an apologist for slavery.
• While the original “X” was a muscular and virile man who refused to
obey when ordered to beat other slaves; the stock character of minstrel
shows became a shuffling asexual individual with a receding hairline
and graying hair.
• What is X and give me the name of the book Y

29. • X- Uncle Tom
• Y- Uncle Tom’s Cabin

30. Q14
• The most common tale that biographers tell is the story of X as a
young boy dancing for pennies in the streets of New Orleans, who
would scoop up the coins off of the streets and stick them into his
mouth to avoid having the bigger children steal them from him.
Someone dubbed him "satchel mouth" for his mouth acting as a
satchel. Another tale is that because of his large mouth, he was
nicknamed "satchel mouth" which became shortened to Satchmo.
• Another nickname, “Pops” came from X's own tendency to forget
people's names and simply call them "pops" instead.
• X was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the music's focus
from collective improvisation to solo performance. With his instantly
recognizable deep and distinctive gravelly voice, resembling the
sound of a trumpet, X was also an influential singer, demonstrating
great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a
song for expressive purposes.
• Who is “X“ aka “Satchmo”?

31. • Louis Armstrong

32. Q15
• An X is any of a family of
related electro-mechanical rotor
cipher machines used for the
encryption and decryption of
secret messages. X was
invented by German engineer
Arthur Scherbius at the end of
World War I. The early models
were used commercially from
the early 1920s, and adopted
by military and government
services of several countries —
most notably by Nazi Germany
before and during World War II.

33. • Enigma Machine

34. Q16
• The text is derived from sections 1.10.32–3 of Cicero's De
finibus bonorum et malorum (On the Boundaries of Goods
and Evils. The original passage began:
• Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit
amet, consectetur, adipisci velit
• We know that this passage is the source of the “lorem
ipsum” text used by printers to show default text.
• I want to know what is the term used (incorrectly btw) to
refer to the use of this passage?

35. • Greeking, from the phrase, “Its all Greek to me”

36. Q17
• X is a syncretistic religion - a faith involving elements from two or
more religions including Taoism, Shintoism, Buddhism,
Christianity, Mysticism, and many other Religions' universal
truths and a combination of martial arts and the Code of Chivalry.
These philosophies are the heart of X.
• Real Ys are modern versions of the Shao Lin Monk, the
European Knight, and the Samurai Warrior. The X religion is an
inspiration and a way of life for many people throughout the world
who take on the mantle of Y. X is merely a new name for ancient
faiths. Masters of X have been on Earth for over 5,000 years
under many names including Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu, St.
Francis of Assisi, Ghandi, Martin Luther King and so many others
....
• Y apply the principles, ideals, philosophies, and teachings of X in
a practical manner within their lives. Y seek the Living Force Of
Creation for guidance.

37. • Jediism and Jedi Knights

38. Q18
• In A’s father's autobiography, Toward Freedom, he writes that the police
frequently came to the family home while he was in prison and took away pieces
of furniture as payment toward the fines the Government imposed on him. He
says, “ A, my four-year-old daughter, was greatly annoyed at this continuous
process of despoliation and protested to the police and expressed her strong
displeasure. I am afraid those early impressions are likely to colour her future
views about the police force generally."
• A created the ‘Vanar Sena’ movement for young girls and boys which played a
small but notable role in the Indian Independence Movement, conducting protests
and flag marches, as well as helping members of the Indian National Congress
circulate sensitive publications and banned materials. In an often-told story, she
smuggled out in her schoolbag an important document from her father's house
under police observation, that outlined plans for a major revolutionary initiative in
the early 1930s.
• ID A

39. • Indira Gandhi

40. Q19
• “Behind every great
fortune there is a crime”
• Which famous book begins with this quote?

41. • The Godfather- Mario Puzo

42. Q20
• They formed the group "Tom and Jerry" in 1957, and
had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey,
Schoolgirl". As ______, the duo rose to fame in 1965,
backed by the hit single “_________”. Their music was
featured in the landmark film The Graduate, propelling
them further into the public consciousness. That hit
single has been recently featured in a 2009 superheroes
movie.
Part points

43. • Simon and Garfunkel
• The Sound of Silence

44. Q21
• Speaking about this movie, Omar Sharif later said "If you
are the man with the money and somebody comes to
you and says he wants to make a film that's four hours
long, with no stars, and no women, and no love story,
and not much action either, and he wants to spend a
huge amount of money to go film it in the desert- what
would you say?". Which movie?

45. • Lawrence of Arabia

46. Q22
• The seaweed kombu has been used in Japanese cuisine
for hundreds of years now. In 1908, the active ingredient
in kombu was isolated and commercial production began
shortly after. This active factor is said to stimulate
receptors for umami — the ‘fifth’ taste identified by Ikeda
— a savoury,broth-like, meaty flavour, thus signaling the
presence of proteins to the digestive system. Identify the
active factor.

47. • Mono Sodium Glutamate

48. Q23
• These eminent Mumbaikars are part of a list .What largely
honorary position did they hold?
Dilip Kumar -- 1980 (actor)
Sunil Dutt -- 1982 (actor & politician)
Nana Chudasama -- 1989 (social activist)
Bakul Patel -- 1992 (social worker)
F T Korakiwala -- 1993 (businessman)
Sunil Gavaskar -- 1995 (cricketer)
Usha Kiron -- 1997 (actress)
Kiran Shantaraman -- 2002, 2003 (film-maker)
Jagannathrao Hegde -- 2004 (medical doctor)

49. • Sheriff of Mumbai

50. Q24
• A Norwegian mercenary founded X and the British later
took it over. During the American Revolutionary War, X
was the site of a major battle. Rumors held it to be the
site of various occult rites. The person cited as being
influential in promoting the unique architecture of X
during the pre-American Civil War era was Judge
Solomon W. His campaign to reform X came to a head
when he met a young architect named Cyrus Pinkney.
Some notable buildings in X are The Statue of Justice
and the Stonegate Prison.

51. • Gotham City

52. Q25
• What is this sequence a parody of?

53. • The STAR CHILD in 2001: A Space odyssey

54. Theme Round 1
Famous Tweets
from 2011-2012

55. Who’s tweet and what’s its significance?

56. • The Mars Phoenix Lander was a NASA JPL (Jet
Propulsion Laboratory) vessel designed to collect
information on Mars, specifically whether or not it could
support life or even if it has life on it now. The NASA JPL
team sent out status updates as the Phoenix Lander,
talking about what it found on the 4th planet from the
sun. The response was overwhelming, with tens of
thousands of followers and increased visibility for the
Mars mission and Twitter.
• The Mars Phoneix Lander is truly the first to post status
updates from another world.

57. What is Roger Ebert talking about?

58. • The death of Ryan Dunn

59. • Which musicians death is Microsoft using as PR material
here?

61. • Who’s death was first announced by Malik Al-Abdeh

63. • Which film personality and why?

65. • Put funda

66. • Abbottabad

67. • Whose first tweet?

68. • The Pope’s first tweet

69. • Whose first tweet? And what distinction
does this person hold in Twitterverse

71. Theme Round 2
Poetry
ID the event the following verses were inspired by.
ID Poem/Poet for 2 bonus points

72. The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
….
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths—for you the shores a-
crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
….
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;

73. • O Captain! My Captain!- Walt Whitman
• The assassination of Abraham Lincoln

74. Cannon to the right of them,
Half a league, half a league,
Cannon to the left of them,
Half a league onward,
Cannon in front of them
All in the valley of Death
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Rode the six hundred.
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
….
Boldly they rode and well,
Not tho' the soldiers knew
Into the jaws of Death,
Some one had blunder'd:
Into the mouth of Hell
Theirs not to make reply,
Rode the six hundred.
Theirs not to reason why,
….
Theirs but to do and die:
While horse and hero fell,
Into the valley of Death
They that had fought so well
Rode the six hundred.
Came thro' the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.

75. • The Charge of the Light Brigade- Alfred Lord Tennyson

76. Listen my children and you shall hear So through the night rode ______;
Of the midnight ride of ___________, And so through the night went his cry of
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; alarm
Hardly a man is now alive To every Middlesex village and farm,---
Who remembers that famous day and year. A cry of defiance, and not of fear,
He said to his friend, "If the British march A voice in the darkness, a knock at the
door,
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch And a word that shall echo for evermore!
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,-- For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
One if by land, and two if by sea; Through all our history, to the last,
And I on the opposite shore will be, In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm The people will waken and listen to hear
Through every Middlesex village and farm, The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
For the country folk to be up and to arm." And the midnight message of _________.

77. • Paul Revere's Ride - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

78. There was a sound of revelry by night, ….
And Belgium's capital had gathered then And Ardennes waves above them her
Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright green leaves,
Dewy with nature’s tear-drops, as
The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave they pass,
men. Grieving, if aught inanimate e’er
….. grieves,
Did ye not hear it? -- No; 'twas but the wind, Over the unreturning brave,—alas!
Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; Ere evening to be trodden like the
grass
….
Which now beneath them, but
But hark! -- that heavy sound breaks in once above shall grow
more, In its next verdure, when this fiery
As if the clouds its echo would repeat; mass
And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before; Of living valour, rolling on the foe
Arm! arm! it is -- it is -- the cannon's opening And burning with high hope, shall
roar! moulder cold and low.

79. • The Eve of Waterloo by Lord Byron
• The Battle of Waterloo

80. …..The cargo came! and who could
…..O happy town beside the sea,
blame
Whose roads lead everywhere to all;
If Indians seized the tea,
Than thine no deeper moat can be,
And, chest by chest, let down the
No stouter fence, no steeper wall! same
Into the laughing sea?
Bad news from George on the English For what avail the plough or sail
throne:
Or land or life, if freedom fail?
"You are thriving well," said he;
"Now by these presents be it known,
The townsmen braved the English
You shall pay us a tax on tea; king,
'Tis very small,--no load at all,-- Found friendship in the French,
Honor enough that we send the call." And Honor joined the patriot ring
Low on their wooden bench….

81. • Boston by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Boston Tea Party

82. In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we
lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies
grow
In Flanders fields.

83. • In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
• WW1

84. Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high,
Where knowledge is free,
Where the world has not broken up into fragments by narrow dogmatic
walls,
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
into the dreary desert sand of dead habit,
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into lever widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake!

85. • Into that heaven of freedom – Rabindranath Tagore
• Indian Freedom Struggle

86. By the flow of the inland river, No more shall the war cry sever,
Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Or the winding rivers be red;
Where the blades of the grave-grass They banish our anger forever
quiver, When they laurel the graves of our
Asleep are the ranks of the dead: dead!
Under the sod and the dew, Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day; Waiting the judgment-day,
Under the one, the Blue, Love and tears for the Blue,
Under the other, the Gray Tears and love for the Gray.

87. • The Blue And The Gray by Francis Miles Finch
• The American Civil War (Blue- Union Soldiers, Grey-
Confederates)

88. Infinite Pounce
Anti Clockwise

89. Q26
• The X are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean,
located over 250 nautical miles (460 km; 290 mi) East of
the coast of mainland South America.
• In the movie, Iron Lady, the X are depicted as
instrumental in Margaret Thatcher’s election to second
term of office.
• Though the UK claims sovereignty over X, they are also
claimed by Argentina which led to the X war in 1982
• The X were recently in the news over Roger Waters’
controversial comments stating that the X belong to
Argentina.

90. • The Falkland Islands

91. Q27
• Einstein’s theory of relativity was vindicated in his lifetime
(1919) by the demonstration that light from distant stars
is “bent” by the mass of the sun, just as predicted by the
theory’s equations.
• What empirical evidence spectacularly validated
Newton’s theory of gravitation and Newtonian physics,
three decades after his death?

92. • It accurately presaged the return of Halley’s comet in
1758.

93. Q28
• In 1966, when Alexander Courage was first asked to compose the
music for this, he entered into a deal with X, who said he’d write
the lyrics. The lyrics were never used, but they went as follows:
Beyond the rim of the starlight,
My love is wandering in star flight.
I know he'll find
In star clustered reaches
Love, strange love
A starwoman teaches.
I know his journey ends never.
His ____ _____ will go on forever.
But tell him while He wanders his starry sea,
Remember, Remember me.
Name X and what were these the supposed lyrics to?

94. • X- Gene Roddenberry
• Star Trek

95. Q29
• In the 90s, Russian readers were able to buy serialized
stories named “We call her Scarlett”, “The last love of
Scarlett” and so on…, all written by Yuliya Hipatrick, a
consortium of 30 Russian and Belarussian writers in
Minsk who jointly cranked out story after story.
• According to NYT, “American readers might not
immediately recognize Mitchell's devilishly debonair
hero…”
• What were the Belarussians writing?

96. • Sequels to Gone with the Wind

97. Q30
• He carries a rickshaw puller's hand bell in his pocket at
all times. It belonged to Hasari Pal. For him it is a potent
reminder of what he calls “the voice” of India. For the last
26 years, this Padma Bhushan recipient, has been using
his royalties to support 14 charities in rural Bengal. His
charities recently celebrated a milestone – the 75,000th
tuberculosis patient cured at his medical centre in the
Sunderbans in West Bengal. Who?

98. • Dominique Lapierre of City of God, Freedom at Midnight
and O! Jerusalem fame

99. Q31
• George Orwell describing an idyllic Sunday afternoon.
“The wife is already asleep in the armchair and the
children have been sent out for a nice long walk. You put
your feet up on the sofa, settle your spectacles on your
nose and open the X. ”
• However if Orwell were alive today he wouldn’t get his
idyllic Sunday afternoon.
• What is X?

100. • News of the World

101. Q32
• The following is a description of the State Seal of an US State. Which one
(X)?
• Around the bend of the ring are represented thirty-one stars, being the
number of States of which the Union will consist upon the admission of X.
The foreground figure represents the goddess Minerva having sprung full
grow[n] from the brain of Jupiter. She is introduced as a type of the political
birth of the State of X, without having gone through the probation of a
territory. At her feet crouches a grisly [grizzly] bear feeding upon the clusters
from a grape vine, emblematic of the peculiar characteristics of the country.
A miner is engaged with his rocker and bowl at his side, illustrating the
golden wealth of the ______, upon whose waters are seen shipping, typical
of commercial greatness; and the snow-clad peaks of the _____make up the
background, while above is the Greek motto "Eureka," (I have found,)
applying either to the principle involved in the admission of the State, or the
success of the miner at work. ”
—Original 1849 text describing the seal

104. Q33
• Originally built as a failed prototype of Sirius Cybernetics
Corporation's GPP (Genuine People Personalities)
technology, X is afflicted with severe depression and
boredom, in part because he has a "brain the size of a
planet" which he is seldom, if ever, given the chance to use.
• X’s hardest task is composing lullabies. An example:
Now the world has gone to bed
Darkness won't engulf my head
I can see by infra-red
How I hate the night
Now I lay me down to sleep
Try to count electric sheep
Sweet dream wishes you can keep
How I hate the night

105. • Marvin the Paranoid Android

106. Q34
• The origin of the school comes from L'Ordre des Chevaliers du Saint
Esprit, an elite group of French knights that was created in 1578. Each
member was awarded the Cross of the Holy Spirit, which hung from a
blue ribbon. According to one story, the group became known for its
extravagant and luxurious banquets, known as ”X". While these dinners
ended at the time of the French Revolution, the name remained
synonymous with excellent cooking. Another theory has it that the blue
ribbon simply became synonymous with excellence, and this was later
applied to other fields such as cooking.
• The name was adopted by the French culinary magazine, La Cuisinière
X, founded by Marthe Distel in the late 19th century. The magazine
began offering special lessons by some of the best chefs in France. This
eventually grew to become a cooking school that opened in Paris in 1895
and quickly became one of the most élite cooking schools in the world.
The school closed during the German occupation of Paris (1940-44) and
was later sold to the present owner, André J. Cointreau, a descendant of
both the Cointreau and Rémy Martin dynasties.

107. • Le Cordon Bleu

108. Q35
• Some Western sources claimed that Gagarin, during his
space flight, had made the
comment,__________________ However, no such
words appear in the verbatim record of Gagarin’s
conversations with the Earth during the spaceflight. In a
2006 interview a close friend of Gagarin, Colonel
Valentin Petrov, stated that Gagarin never said such
words, and that the phrase originated from Nikita
Khrushchevs speech at the plenum of the Central
Committee of the CPSU, where the anti-religious
propaganda was discussed.
• What was the comment?

109. • I don’t see any God up here

110. Q36
Put Funda
(Hint:this
is a very
famous
voyage.)

111. • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

112. Q37
• George Lucas very recently said this about whom?
"I am deeply saddened by the passing of such a visionary artist and such a
humble man. ______ was the first person I hired to help me envision Star Wars.
His genial contribution, in the form of unequaled production paintings, propelled
and inspired all of the cast and crew of the original Star Wars trilogy. When
words could not convey my ideas, I could always point to one of (his) fabulous
illustrations and say, 'Do it like this.’……..we will all be benefiting from his oeuvre
for generations to come. Beyond that, I will always remember him as a kind and
patient, and wonderfully talented, friend and collaborator.”
• The same person also designed the alien ships in Steven
Spielberg's films Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), while his work as the
conceptual artist on the 1985 film Cocoon earned him the
Academy Award for Visual Effects

113. • Ralph McQuarrie who passed away last Sunday.

114. Q38
• Martin Niemoller was an anti-Communist and supported Hitler's rise to
power at first. But when Hitler insisted on the supremacy of the state over
religion, Niemoller became disillusioned. He became the leader of a group
of German clergymen opposed to Hitler. Unlike Niemoller, they gave in to
the Nazis' threats. In 1937 he was arrested and eventually confined in
Sachsenhausen and Dachau.
• His crime was "not being enthusiastic enough about the Nazi movement."
Niemöller was released in 1945 by the Allies. He continued his career in
Germany as a clergyman and as a leading voice of penance and
reconciliation for the German people after World War II.
• He is more well known for a poem which is frequently quoted, and is a
popular model for describing the dangers of political apathy, as it often
begins with specific and targeted fear and hatred which soon escalates out
of control.
• What is the poem?

115. First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
- Martin Niemoller

116. Q39
• X had used the breakdown of his first marriage as inspiration for his 1990s sitcom
Joking Apart. Retaining this semi-autobiographical trend, Y was based on him
meeting his wife, Sue Vertue, and on the issues that arise in new relationships.
• According to an interview with The New York Times, X met Vertue at the
Edinburgh International Television Festival in 1996. Vertue had been working for
Tiger Aspect, a production company run by Peter Bennett-Jones. Bennett-Jones
and his friend and former colleague Andre Ptaszynski, who had worked with X on
the sitcoms Joking Apart and Chalk, told X and Vertue that each fancied the other.
A relationship blossomed and they left their respective production companies to
join Hartswood Films, run by Beryl Vertue, Sue's mother. After production wrapped
on Chalk in 1997, X announced to the cast that he was marrying Vertue.
• When she eventually asked him to write a sitcom for Hartswood, he decided to
base it around the evolution of their own relationship. Drunk one evening, he went
into her office, wrote the word “Y" on a sheet of paper and told her to ask him
about it later.

117. • X = STEVE MOFFAT
• Y = COUPLING

118. Q40
• At the age of 13, he co-wrote a rough draft of Y with
childhood friend Evan Goldberg, who he had met at bar
mitzvah classes. Based on their teenage experiences, X
and Goldberg spent the rest of their time in high school
polishing the script. They initially worried that the 1999
film American Pie had beaten them to the idea for the
movie, but felt that it lacked "all honest interaction
between characters, which is what [they]'re going for.“
• The film eventually released in 2007 and X played a role
in that film. Also the two main lead characteres of the
film had the same first names as X and Evan Goldberg.

119. • X = Seth Rogen
• Y= Superbad

120. Q41
• X was a West Indian cricketer. He is a right handed batsman
and off break bowler. A lively, often unpredictable character,
X was expelled from the West Indian Cricketing Academy in
July 2001 for bad behaviour but continued to play for the
Leeward Islands in the Busta Cup. Upon his return in Feb
2002, he was called into the West Indian squad as a
repolacement for Marlon Samuels but was dropped again
when he lied about his non appearance in the ICC
Champions Trophy in Sept 2002. Following a stabbing
incident in Jan 2004, he was arrested but given a third
chance in May 2005. X has the dubious record for the
slowest ODI duck which lasted 31 balls in the DHL Cup
Finals . X died 4th March 2012 when he lost control of his car
and slammed into a pole.

121. • X- Runako Morton

122. Q42
• X changed their name to X, after Linda X, a member of
the Charles Manson cult (aka the Manson "family")
famous for serving as his getaway driver. In an interview
with Ukula, the bassist explained how the former guitarist
picked the name. Reading up on Charles Manson, the X
name stuck with him. "He just thought the word was cool,
it literally took about a minute after the rest of us heard
it... so it was decided,” he explains. X is a common
Armenian surname, originated from the Arabic word,
meaning a butcher or slaughterer.

123. • Kasabian

124. Q43
• Hackers aligned with Anonymous recently targeted X,
stating: "Your continued attack on the worlds food
supply, as well as the health of those who eat it, has
earned you our full attention," wrote AntiSec (the faction
aligned with Anonymous). "Your crimes against humanity
are too many to name on one page."
• Anonymous' battle with X began last July when the
hackers disrupted the company's Web site and then
released data on about 2,500 individuals involved in the
industry. According to X, 10 percent of this information
was related to current and former X employees. X?

125. • Monsanto

126. Q44
• X, Y and Z collectively hold the top three spots for the
fastest-ever selling PC games in all of history. The latest,
Z sold 3.3 million copies in a single day. Identify X, Y,
and Z for bonus points, or just identify the game
associated with X, Y and Z, which though released in
2004, still has over 11 million players worldwide.

127. • World of Warcraft
o X- The Burning Crusade
o Y- The Wrath of the Lich King
o Z-Cataclysm

128. Q45
• Who and what was the occasion?

129. • Vladimir Putin on being elected to his 3rd term as
President of the Russian Federation

130. Q46
• Klout, tipped as the next big thing in the rapidly evolving
world of social media, is being described by its creators
as "the standard for online and internet influence".
• Using a complicated series of algorithms, the system
adds up a person's tweets, likes, pings, LinkedIn
connections, Google mentions, status updates and other
social media musings. The ripple effect of that online
contribution is used to measure how much influence a
person has online and, by inference, whether they are
worth listening to. X tops the list with a score of 100,
ahead of Barack Obama with 88, and the Dalai Lama at
90. X?

131. • Justin Bieber

132. Q47
• The ”_______ ________" is a term used to refer to the generation, actually
a cohort, that came of age during World War I. The term was popularized
by Ernest Hemingway who used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for
his novel, The Sun Also Rises. In that volume Hemingway credits the
phrase to Gertrude Stein, who was then his mentor and patron.
• In A Moveable Feast, which was published after Hemingway and Stein
were both dead and after a literary feud that lasted much of their life,
Hemingway reveals that the phrase was actually originated by the garage
owner who serviced Stein's car. When a young mechanic failed to repair
the car in a way satisfactory to Stein, the garage owner shouted at the boy :
"You are all a ”________ ________.” Stein, in telling Hemingway the story,
added, "That is what you are. That's what you all are...all of you young
people who served in the war….” This generation included distinguished
artists such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, John Dos Passos, Waldo
Peirce, Alan Seeger, and Erich Maria Remarque.

133. • The Lost Generation

134. Q48
• He is Hollywood's most reluctant - and increasingly strange – star. For
the past ten years, the London-born actor has led a resolutely reclusive
existence, locked away on a remote 50-acre estate in the mountains of
County Wicklow (hence the former public schoolboy's recently acquired
Irish brogue).He has emerged to make just four films in the past decade.
• This spring, he will return to a movie studio - only this time, instead of
acting, he will join the carpentry crew, building the sets on The Private
Lives Of Pippa Lee, which is to be directed by his wife Rebecca Miller,
author of the book on which the film is based.
• So obsessed is X with practising his new skills as a carpenter that he
admitted, in a rare interview this week, that his nine-year-old son Ronan
(the couple also have another boy, five-year-old Cashel) thought, until
recently, that his father was not an actor but worked on a building site.
• Taking method acting to the extreme is very much a X hallmark. He has
previously asked his crew to wheel him around in his wheelchair between
takes and feed him with a spoon and spent three nights on meagre prison
rations in a freezing cold cell.

135. • Daniel Day Lewis

136. Q49
• Connect (exhaustive):

137. • Pixar shorts nominated for the Academy Award for Best
Animated Short Film

138. Q50
• ID this singer, songwriter, guitarist and actress (among
several other jobs)
• She has been approached by Ultra records for a record
deal which later fell through after the production of one
single.
• She lives in New York and one of her best known songs
was used as a commercial by Cat Fresh against her
wishes.

139. • Phoebe Buffay

140. Video
• Id the guy in red

141. • Zach Galifianakis

142. LVC
Exhaustive & all pictures are generic

143. 40/-20

144. 35/-18

145. 30/-15

146. 25/-12

147. 20/-10

148. 15/-7

149. 10/-5

150. 5/0

151. • Jules Verne inventions that came true
• 1. Newscasts
• 2. Solar Sails
• 3.Videoconferencing
• 4.Taser
• 5.Skywriting
• 6.Spaceships Splashdowns
• 7.Lunar Modules
• 8.Submarines
• Source: “8 Jules Verne Inventions That Came True”- National Geographic