General Quiz conducted at Delhi-42's Weekly Quiz Meet.

1. 40 SOMETHINGth QUIZ MEET
DELHI 42 QUIZ CLUB
Shivendra Tandon

2. RULES
• Infinite Bounce Pounce
• +10 on direct, +10/-10 on pounce
• Last 4 questions are a connect

3. 1. The film was just weeks from its scheduled
premiere, but because of X was delayed until late
January 1964, as it was felt that the public was in no
mood for such a film any sooner.
One line by Slim Pickens—"a fella could have a
pretty good weekend in Y with all that stuff"—was
dubbed to change “Y” to "Vegas".
X also serves as another possible reason why the
pie-fight scene was cut. In the scene, someone
exclaims, "Gentlemen! Our __ __ __ has been struck
down in his prime!" Editor Anthony Harvey stated
that “The scene would have stayed, except that
Columbia Pictures were horrified, and thought it
would offend Z’s family.”
Give me X, Y and the film.

4. ANSWER

5. X: Kennedy Assassination
Y: Dallas
Film: Dr. Strangelove
"Gentlemen! Our gallant young president has
been struck down in his prime!"

6. 2. Nuno Espírito Santo, known as simply Nuno, is a
Portuguese retired footballer who played as a
goalkeeper, and the current manager of Valencia CF.
During his career he first made a name for himself in
Spain, playing for three teams in five years. He later
represented Porto in his country, albeit with little
impact, and also played professionally in Russia.
However, arguably his biggest contribution to
modern football came in 1996 when he moved from
Vitória de Guimarães to Deportivo de La Coruña
after a chance meeting with X in a bar in Guimarães.

7. ANSWER

8. Super agent Jorge Mendes’ first transfer.

9. 3. Whose tweet?

10. ANSWER

12. 4. The word X finds its origins in 1855,
theater slang for "a failure in
performance;" by 1862 it had acquired
the general sense of "any ignominious
failure or dismal flop". It comes via the
French and Italian phrases, which were
derived from an Italian word
meaning literally "make a bottle“ or
"bottle“.

13. ANSWER

14. Fiasco

15. 5. X is a 2011 American political drama film
directed and written by Y, along with Grant
Heslov and Beau Willimon.
X is also a phrase that has become synonymous
with a significant event in history. The phrase
refers to a particular day, which was thought to
have originally been ‘the day of the full moon’.
Y and X’s significance in history.

16. ANSWER

17. X: The Ides of March
Y: George Clooney
Caesar’s assassination.

18. 6. Last year the X Beauty Salon on Eversholt
Street in London were forced to change their
name after a women’s boutique with the same
name was vandalised by a mob.
The shop’s old business cards depicted an
Egyptian goddess with gold-trimmed wings
spread open and wearing Egyptian style head-
dress.
The new leaflets show an eye with the letters Y
in large white letters on a black pupil
background.
Funda.

19. ANSWER

21. 7. Ruslaan Mumtaz is an Indian film and
television actor. He made his Bollywood debut
in 2007 with Hindi film MP3 – Mera Pehla Pehla
Pyaar. In 2013, He made his television debut
with the role of Dhruv in Kehta Hai Dil Jee Le
Zara.
However, his career path could have been very
different had he not lost out on the lead role in
the film X, after initially being cast for the role.
The film's producer found him too good looking
for the role and therefore went with Z on the
suggestion of his 17 year old daughter.
Give X.

22. ANSWER

24. 8. An odd trend appeared earlier this year
in France with books about ____ flying off
the shelfs.
The book X in particular became one of the
bestsellers in the country at the time, with
sales almost tripling from the previous
year’s figures.
This huge demand could traced back to
January, with many people wanting to
learn about the topic.

25. ANSWER

27. 9. The X family was an Alsatian family which
acquired its wealth in the textile industry and
became leading industrialists and politicians of
the region.
The first traces of the family can be found in
1440, when Jean X moved from Stein am
Rhein to Zurich, both in Switzerland. His
grandson Hartmann X (1572–1611) was the
first to move to Mulhouse.
The X family pioneered cotton cloth
manufacturing; Mulhouse became one of
France’s leading textile centers in the
nineteenth century.

28. • Samuel (1719–1776): Started a cloth printing firm in
Mulhouse.
• Josué (1756–1830): First of six members to become
mayor of Mulhouse.
• André (1789–1875): Under his lead, the company
became the leading textile company of Mulhouse.
• Nicolas (1781–1852): Installation of railway lines in
Alsace.
• Paul (1852–1907): Winner of one of the earliest
automobile race's in the world, the 1895 Paris–
Bordeaux–Paris race.
• Maurice (1856–1946): Engineer who worked closely
together with Gustave Eiffel.
• Y (1984-present): Award winning actress.

29. ANSWER

30. Koechlin

31. 10.

32. ANSWER

34. 11. "Ding-Dong! The _ _ _" is the centerpiece of several
individual songs in an extended set-piece performed by
the Munchkin characters, Glinda (Billie Burke) and
Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) in the classic 1939 film The
Wizard of Oz.
In April 2013, it saw a huge surge in popularity and
reached it’s highest position of number 2 in UK Singles
Chart.
The BBC, however, did not play the track in full on
Radio 1 during The Official Chart on Sunday 14 April,
but would carry a news item explaining why the song
was in the charts during which a short clip would be
played. The move prompted accusations of censorship,
heightened by the BBC's status as a publicly funded
broadcaster.
Give Funda.

35. ANSWER

36. Margaret Thatcher’s death.

37. 12. Mohan Meakin is a large group of companies
started with Asia's first brewery incorporated in
1855 at Kasauli under the name Y Breweries.
Lion Beer is the main brand first sold by Y
Breweries in the 1840s and remained the number
one beer in India for over a century from the
1840s until the 1960s.
Today, Mohan Meakin's principal brands are Old
Monk Rum and Golden Eagle Beer.
Even though the Y family established the brewery
and ran it for many years, the name Y is famous
(or rather infamous) because of the actions of one
of its members, known as X Y, in the early
nineteenth century.
Ironically, the name X Y, by which we know this
person, itself is a misnomer.

38. ANSWER

39. General Dyer.
He was a Colonel, who was given temporary
charge as a Brigadier General.

40. 13. On the evening of 24 January 1972, Shiochi Yokoi, a
57 year old man, was discovered in a jungle on the
island of Guam by two local men checking their shrimp
traps along a small river on Talofofo.
They had assumed Yokoi was a villager from Talofofo,
but he thought his life was in danger and attacked
them. They managed to subdue him and carried him
out of the jungle with minor bruising.
"It is with much embarrassment, but I have returned",
he said upon his return to Japan. The remark would
become a popular saying in Japanese.
After a whirlwind media tour of Japan, he married and
became a popular television personality and an
advocate of austere living.

41. ANSWER

42. He was a Japanese WW2 soldier and had been
hiding in a cave in Guam since 1944, when the
American forces captured the island.

43. 14. Henry Calthorpe X is an English sports journalist, best
known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on
BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. He has
established a reputation as a commentator with an accent,
vocabulary and syntax that is quintessentially Old Etonian
both in style and substance. He also writes on cricket and has
authored eight books to date.
His father (Thomas Robert Calthorpe X, 1903–1986) was at
Eton with Y and his name is believed to have been the
inspiration for the name of supervillain Ernst Stavro X.
Many of X’s characteristics have become trends of
supervillains in popular fiction, representing the stock
character of the evil genius. One of these in particular has
been parodied several times, including in movies such as
Austin Powers and Inspector Gadget.
X and Y.

44. ANSWER

45. X: Blofeld
Y: Ian Fleming

46. 15. Though the origins of the name have never
been confirmed, the character’s name could
have conceivably been derived from the Sanskrit
word for warrior, or the Hebrew word Y
meaning "one who knows.“
Originally named ‘Buffy’ or Bunden Debannen,
the character was later renamed Minch X before
eventually being named X.
Which character?

47. ANSWER

48. Sanskrit: Yodha Hebrew: Yodea

49. 16. In June 2007, the Prime Minister of the
Czech Republic, Mirek Topolánek arrived in
Pakistan for an official visit.
However, the visit became a source of much
embarrassment for the Pakistan authorities
because of a banner which was supposed to
welcome him, but instead suggested that he
had reached the end of his journey.
What was wrong with the banner?

50. ANSWER

51. They printed a Chequered flag instead of the
Czech Flag.

52. 17. The word X comes from the Arabic word Y,
denoting a substance which could turn lower
metals into gold/silver.
Initially, Y was synonymous with ‘al-kimiya’
(Alchemy). Then ‘al-kimiya’ became became the
‘Art of transmutation’ and Y was the ‘ Agent of
transmutation’.
Living beings could also attain such perfection,
which is where the word X gets its current
meaning.
Which word?

53. ANSWER

54. Elixir

55. CONNECT
+30/-30
+20/-20
+10/-10
+5/0

56. 18. On April 28 2011, S. Victor Whitmill filed a motion in
Federal District Court in St. Louis asking a judge to order
Warner Brothers to stop using what he calls his 'tribal
_____' in its posters or in the movie. That would
effectively block the film from being released, or at least
delay it until further editing.
Whitmill, who created the original ____ and registered
the copyright, sued in April asking that a federal judge
halt the release of the blockbuster comedy sequel
because it prominently features the ______ without
permission. As we noted when the case was filed,
copyrighted works are copyrighted works, no matter
whether they are painted on canvases or walls or the
bodies of former sportsmen.
A notice of dismissal was filed in June , putting an end to
one of the odder copyright cases in recent memory.

57. ANSWER

58. Ed Helms’ Mike Tyson tattoo in Hangover 2
CONNECT: Ed Helms

59. 19. Paul Giamatti was suggested for the role of X, but the
actor declined. Martin Short and Hank Azaria were also
reported to be interested. In January 2004, Variety
reported Y was in talks to play the role. At the time, he was
already committed to another NBC comedy, Come to Papa.
Due to Y being unavailable, Bob Odenkirk was selected as X
and was part of the cast presented to NBC executives.
However, Come to Papa was quickly canceled, allowing Y to
commit to the show. Y later stated he had only seen about
half of the original pilot episode of the British series before
he auditioned. He did not continue watching for fear that
he would start copying Z’s characterizations.
Rainn Wilson, who was cast for another role, had originally
auditioned for X, a performance that he described as a
"terrible Z impersonation". Give Y, Z and the show.

60. ANSWER

61. Y: Steve Carell (CONNECT)
Z: Ricky Gervais/ David Brent
The Office

62. 20. Tranquility, also known as Node 3, is a module of the
International Space Station (ISS).
NASA held an online poll to name Node 3. Users were allowed to
choose from among four provided names (Earthrise, Legacy,
Serenity, and Venture), or to suggest their own. In early voting,
fans of the science fiction TV series Firefly boosted "Serenity",
also the name of the show's film and eponymous spacecraft. In
March 2009, X instructed his fans to suggest “X" as the name for
Node 3 in the online poll.
"X" won the poll by more than 40,000 votes. The naming contest
rules, however, stated that although the poll results will be taken
into account, NASA has ultimate discretion in choosing an
appropriate name for the node.
X threatened a lawsuit if the node was not named after him and
was supported by a US congressman.
As a compromise, NASA named a space treadmill that would lie in
Node 3 after X, making it the only piece of NASA engineered
equipment in space that is named after a living human being.

63. ANSWER

64. Stephen Colbert

65. 21. Partial Filmography of?

66. ANSWER

67. Jon Stewart

68. CONNECT

69. ANSWER