The document discusses the Traveling Wilburys, a supergroup formed in 1988 consisting of George Harrison, Bob Dylan, and Tom Petty. It notes they recorded their first album after accidentally starting

1. General Quiz
Utkarsh Bajpai

2. Mains

3. Round 1

4. 1.
• The Barbican exhibition, “Boom for Real,” that took place in Sep ’17 was
the first large-scale British show of X’s work and will feature over 100 works
as well as notebooks, photographs and archival materials.
• Inspired by the exhibition, two new murals by Y appeared at the Barbican
centre as a homage to X.
• The first image is captioned “Portrait of X being welcomed by the
metropolitan police – an unofficial collaboration with the new X show”
• The second image which is possibly mocking the exhibition, as X was
originally a graffiti artist, is of a ferris wheel with people queueing up at a
ticket booth underneath. Crown motifs, common in some of X’s art, replace
the wheel’s passenger cars.
• Images follow

5. 1.

7. Banksy, Basquiat

8. 2.
• X‘s face is known to redden noticeably when he is under stress or in a
generally agitated state, especially as a manager on the sidelines
during a match. This has earned him the nickname “Y" (in reference
to a German lighting manufacturer).
• Rudi Gores is said to have first used this moniker to describe X. Later,
the nickname became universally known among football aficionados
and has been used by the media as well.

10. Jupp Heyneckes, Osram

11. 3.
• The A.D.M. Jabalpur vs. Shukla case or the X case – as it is famously known - of
1975 is one of the most notable ones in Indian constitutional history. The case saw
a 5 judge bench ruling that the Right to Life and Liberty could be suspended during
Emergency. The only dissenting opinion was from Justice H. R. Khanna, who has
been widely acclaimed for his dissent.
• 2017 saw judgement in the Justice K.S. Puttaswamy vs. Union of India case, better
known as the Y case. Justice DY Chandrachud, writing the judgement for four
judges including Chief Justice JS Khehar, observed that the judgments rendered by
all the judges constituting the majority in the X case "are seriously flawed".
• "Life and personal liberty are inalienable to human existence. These rights are, as
recognised in Kesavananda Bharati, primordial rights. They constitute rights under
natural law. The human element in the life of the individual is integrally founded
on the sanctity of life. Dignity is associated with liberty and freedom," he said.
• Apart from the obvious overruling, the above two also cases have an interesting
relation. Give me X, Y and the relation.

13. X = Habeas Corpus, Y = Right to privacy
Ruling in X was by D.Y Chandrachud’s father, Y.V.
Chandrachud

14. 4.
• Post her career defining scandal, X was the punch line to just about every
late-night monologue joke in 1994. X was the name Barack Obama used as
a verb in talking about metaphorically kneecapping the competition during
the 2007 presidential primaries.
• Y which is based on hours of interviews with X and her ex-husband, shows
not just the abuse she endured, but how she fought back. It gives added
context to the scandal for which she is now principally known. It even
posits new information: The paper that the F.B.I. found in a Dumpster that
showed Ms. Kerrigan’s practice location and schedule in X’s handwriting
supposedly existed in order to help her co-conspirators locate where to
send threatening letters.
• X was also the first woman to successfully execute two triple axels in a
single competition, and the first to complete a triple axel in combination
with a double toe loop.

16. Tonya Harding and I,Tonya

17. 5.
• "A Poison Tree" is a poem written by William Blake, published in 1794
as part of his Songs of Experience collection. It describes the
narrator's repressed feelings of anger towards an individual, emotions
which eventually lead to murder. The poem explores themes of
indignation, revenge, and more generally the fallen state of mankind.
• X, one of the pioneers of something, tweeted this in response to Y.
Give me X and Y/ general funda.
• Image follows

20. Rose McGowan, Weinstein allegations

21. 6.
• The movie is based on a short story by Munshi Premchand.
• Answer should have two guys, title of movie and Director
• Video follows

24. Tom Alter, David
Attenborough, Satyajit Ray,
Shatranj ke Khiladi

25. 7.
Kurowsky served as a nurse in an American Red Cross hospital in Milan
during World War I. One of her patients was the 19-year-old X, who fell
in love with her. By the time of his release and return to the United
States in January 1919, Kurowsky and X planned to marry within a few
months in America. However, in a letter dated March 7, 1919, she
wrote that she had become engaged to an Italian officer. Although
Kurowsky did eventually return to the United States, they never met
again.
Kurowsky inspired one of the central character’s in X’s seminal work.
X or book?

27. Farewell to arms - Hemingway

28. 8.
Excerpts from a biography:
• Roland Joffe’s X was my first major role in an international project. Based
on Dominique Lapierre’s eponymous award-winning novel, this was my big
break in Hollywood. The film was shot over three months in Calcutta and a
few scenes were done in London’s Pinewood Studio.
• Once I stopped at a roadside tea-stall to have a cup of tea. It was early
morning and two customers were drinking tea there. On seeing me, one of
them remarked to the other, ‘Arrey, doesn’t this rickshaw fellow remind
you of Y?’ To which the other nodded. ‘Such similar features!’ he
exclaimed.
• When I finished my tea, I told them that I was indeed Y. They looked at me,
not quite believing me or their eyes. Later, as I was leaving, I heard the tea-
stall owner exclaiming, ‘Bechara. Poor man. How sad to see him reduced to
this state. He used to be such a fine actor. And imagine him pulling a
rickshaw now? Must have fallen on real hard days.’ I could not help smiling
to myself. My hard work had paid off.

30. Om Puri, City of Joy

31. Round 2
Amul Topicals
+5 for each correct
+10 for all correct

39. Answers

40. 1.

45. Round 3

46. 1.
X is a 2017 psychological horror film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos,
from a screenplay by Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou and stars Colin
Farrell and Nicole Kidman. X is based on the play Iphigenia at Aulis by Y.
The play revolves around Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek
coalition before and during the Trojan War, and his decision to sacrifice
his daughter, Iphigenia, to appease the goddess Artemis and allow his
troops to set sail to preserve their honour in battle against Troy. The
play as it exists in the manuscripts ends with a messenger reporting
that Iphigenia has been replaced on the altar by a ____.

48. The Killing of a sacred deer, Euripidies

49. 2. X, Y and Z
• X first mentioned the Traveling Wilburys publicly during a radio interview with
Bob Coburn in February 1988. When asked how he planned to follow up the
success of his Cloud Nine album, X replied: "What I'd really like to do next is, to do
an album with me and some of my mates ... It's this new group I got in mind: it's
called the Traveling Wilburys. When discussing who the other members might be,
X chose Y and Lynne opted for Roy Orbison.
• Z became a part of the band by accident. As legend has it, the musicians went to
Y's home studio to record a B-side to their single, "This is Love." X had
accidentally left a guitar at Z's house, and when he went to retrieve it, he asked Z
if he wanted to join the session. The musicians had such a good time that they
decided to record a full album — and the song they recorded that day, "Handle
With Care," became one of their biggest hits.
• In January 2015, it was revealed that Z and Jeff Lynne would receive royalties
from Sam Smith's song "Stay with Me" after its writers acknowledged similarities
between it and "I Won't Back Down".

51. George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty

52. 3.
• This is how Bastian Obermayer’s office looked:
In the center of the room was a cluster of desktop and laptop computers;
beyond them, floor-to-ceiling windows looking out onto the dollhouse city.
Whiteboards hanging on the room’s walls were covered in complicated-
looking diagrams. The computers had never been connected to the Internet,
so that they could be used to securely store the 13.4 million files—1.4
terabytes of data.
“This time, with the ________ ______, we were so happy when we found
many U.S. names,” Obermayer said. “Because we knew, O.K, we won’t be
accused of working for the C.I.A. Now they say K.G.B. Which is fine.”
“When you see the Times writing that this thing that started in your living
room led to Donald Trump, then you don’t know what to think about it,”
Obermayer said.
Where does Obermayer work, and what is this mind blowing project of his?

54. Süddeutsche Zeitung and Paradise Papers

55. 4.
The cover of the UK edition of The Letters of X drew
ire for its portrayal of X. Unlike its US counterpoint,
which shows X “bundled up in a coat” with “a
thoughtful smile,” it chose an image of her “on a beach
in a bikini, blond and beaming—a visual antithesis to the
ambitious, intellectual X.” And drawing such a simplistic
binary about a woman’s identity is never a good idea,
especially on the internet. As Nichole LeFebvre points
out, X was aware of her own dualities and played to
them. It’s limiting to focus so heavily on a single aspect
of the beloved writer, who “wrote with an awareness of
the public.” Or, as Electric Literature more succinctly put
it, “we can take a writer who wears a bikini seriously.”

57. Sylvia Plath

58. 5.
• Los Angeles is the quintessential smog-laden, traffic-jammed, heat island,
but a new initiative from Mayor Eric Garcetti aims to help cool the city by
1.67°C over the next 20 years. Cities are prone to overheating, thanks to
the urban heat island effect. They tend to be short on trees and are
covered with black pavement, which absorbs heat from the sun.
• With climate scientists predicting that temperatures are only going to rise,
measures such as this could be crucial to preventing heat exhaustion, heat
stroke, and even heat-related deaths across America.
• If this initiative saw implementation in 35% of LA, it would translate into a
1 degree drop in the city’s temperature. What is this intiative?

60. Painting the streets white

61. 6.
• Originally a little-known town, X became famous in India in the 1950s
owing to its connection with the radio channels Vividh Bharati. The
largest number of requests for film songs addressed to the channel
came from X.
• Because of a large number of song requests and the town's unusual
name, many listeners of Vividh Bharti used to doubt its
existence. Thus the “X" came to be associated with any less-known or
insignificant place. This reference is found in several Hindi movies and
songs. For example, the movie Mounto (1975) features a song
titled Mein Toh X Se Aeyehi Hun.

63. Jhumri Taliya

64. 7.
• President Donald Trump has been using X for a long, long time.
• But his reference Tuesday to the famous 1972 Y song, during his first
address to the United Nations, was by far the largest stage on which
he’s ever used the phrase.
• The song, which Y co-wrote with lyricist Bernie Taupin and released
less than three years after the first U.S. moon landing, tells the story
of a “X" astronaut who must leave his family to explore space. Sung in
first-person, the melancholy protagonist explains that "it’s gonna be a
long, long time" until he returns and that he might come back, not as
"the man they think I am at home," but as “a X, burning out his fuse
up here alone.”

66. Rocket Man, Elton John

67. 8.
• The Washington Post has a separate column called the Fact Checker.
This column first started on Sept. 19, 2007, as a feature during the
2008 presidential campaign. The Washington Post revived it as a
permanent feature on Jan. 11, 2011.
• The purpose of this website, and an accompanying column in the
Sunday print edition of The Washington Post, is to “truth squad” the
statements of political figures regarding issues of great importance,
be they national, international or local.
• In what units are these facts rated?

69. Pinnochio ratings

70. Round 4
+10 for each correct
+5/-5 for stakes
+20 for all correct

77. Answers

82. The Lady or the tiger, Stockton