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Inspiration for X came from 12th-century Asia and Europe.
Horsemen would play jousting competitions, as a way to
practice their cavalry riding skills for combat training.
Initially, they would ride atop horses in a circle, and the goal
was to knock off the man’s hat who was holding a stick. It
prepared and made them stronger for war. Turkish and
Arabian warriors would also throw breakable clay balls of
perfume at their opponents while riding on the poles in a
circle. Whoever was hit would lose and smell strongly of
perfume until they were able to bathe. Both the jousting and
ball-tossing competitions were called “___ _____”, referring to
the small scale simulation of actual battle situations . The
word X comes from the Spanish translation of “____ ____”.
Identify X
Q1

Answer:
CAROUSEL/ MERRY GO
ROUND

"We apologize to all viewers, our guests from Italy and the players from both
teams, for the _________ on the Poljud Stadium grass. "This was an obvious act of
sabotage and a criminal act. We condemn it and ask the police and judicial
bodies to find the person(s) responsible for what is a shame not only for
Croatian football, but the entire country”. This was a statement by X,
spokesman for the Croatian Football federation after their Euro 16 Qualifier
against Italy. X further claimed that a "chemical agent" had been used on the
pitch, 24 to 48 hours before kickoff, timed to be visible during the qualifying
match.
FITB and Give funda.
Q2

Answer:
Swastika (Nazi Hakenkreuz)

X is the name of the book, (actually an extended essay)
written by the author Y, who was diagnosed with bipolar
disorder, for which there was no effective intervention during
her lifetime. Y’s mother was born in British India. Interestingly,
before the publication of X, Y wrote in her diary that X would
be attacked for its feminist perspective. Nevertheless, X has
had many adaptations and has been referenced widely. X is
widely regarded as textual source related to feminism. In her
essay X, Y uses metaphors to explore social injustices and
comments on women's lack of free expression. Her metaphor
of a fish explains her most essential point. Identify X and Y.
Q3

Answer:
X- A Room of One’s Own, Y- Virginia Woolf

X is a web series released recently that follows the lives of
Indigenous American teenagers in rural Y, a south-central state
known for the Five Civilised tribes, as they spend their days
committing crime and fighting it. After the death of their friend
one year prior to the events of the series, the gang wrestles
with a desire to move to California. But first they need to tie up
loose ends in their lives and community, and make preparations
to leave. The title alludes to_____________, areas created under
the concept of tribal sovereignty in the United states. X has
some notable firsts concerning indigenous representation.
Identify X.
Q4

Answer:
X-Reservation Dogs (Y-Oklahoma)

X’s grandfather was a Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, and
literary critic who was considered one of the pioneers of
the progressive movement in Urdu literature. X’s father
was a prominent politician and businessman, who was
assasinated for his views against a “black law”, although
X did not consider his father to be religious liberal in the
truest sense. X’s name means “fire” in the metaphorical
sense in Urdu. Name X, a British-American author of South
Asian origin.
Q5

The music video for the song "__'s & __'s" premiered in mid 2015.The
video, begins with X's character kicking her boyfriend, out of their car
in the middle of a desert, and then focuses largely on a barbecue party
and other recreational activities at X's trailer campsite in the desert.
The video occasionally cuts back to X's boyfriend trying to find her,
which he eventually does. Despite featuring several scenes with clear
sexual innuendos, the video has been praised by some critics for a
certain ‘role reversal’. Its instrumentation includes the guitar and
drums and is influenced by country music. "__'s & __'s" was
nominated for the Grammy Best Rock Performance and Best Rock
Song. What is the ‘role reversal’ in this music video? Name X, the
daughter of Y, who among other things, is a prominent anti-vaxx voice
from California.
Q6

Answer:
Male Sexual Objectification, X-Elle King

While there are, in total, five paintings of X’s by Y, the final three works were
similar in composition and number of Xs (two), causing them to sometimes be
grouped together as one version. The exact dates of the paintings are uncertain,
but it is long believed Y began with larger canvases and pared down in size with
successive versions, though research in recent years has cast doubt on this
assumption. The largest version, painted in the early 1890s, is the most complex,
with five figures. It features three X’s at the forefront, seated in a semi-circle at a
table, with two spectators behind. On the right side of the painting, seated behind
the second man and to the right of the third, is a boy, eyes cast downward, also a
fixed spectator of the game. Further back, on the left side between the first and
second X is a man standing, back to the wall, smoking a pipe and presumably
awaiting his turn at the table. It has been speculated Y added the standing man to
provide depth to the painting, as well as to draw the eye to the upper portion of
the canvas. Give X, and identify the post-impressionist artist, Y.
Q7

Answer:
X-Card Player(Card
Players) Y-Paul Cezanne

“I always wanted to own art, even when I had absolutely no money
—I wished I could have at least a tiny stake in the paintings that I
liked”, said ____ Gouzer, the ex-head of contemporary art at
Christie’s and a co-founder of X, an NFT company that aims to
fractionalize ownership of traditional artworks by converting them
into sets of NFTs called Xs, thus allowing for potentially thousands
of people to share ownership of certain works.
_______‘s iconic Y is the first piece X will fractionalize and auction. Y
has been segmented into 10,000 NFTs, each representing a unique
section of the painting. Identify X and Y.
Q8

Answer:
X-Particle, Y-Love is in the Air

“I started to say ‘__’, it’s like ‘yes’, when I was in ____ ______.
When we would win, everyone would say ‘_____’ and so I
started to say it. I don’t know why, it was natural. I was in
the USA and we played against Chelsea [in 2013] and I don’t
know where this is coming from. I just scored the goal and it
just came out. It was just natural, to be honest. Since that, I
started to do it more often and I feel like the supporters and
the fans see it and they’re like ‘X, _______’. I’m like ‘wow!
People are reminded of me because of it!’ So it’s good, and I’ll
continue doing it like that.”
FITB (the last one) / what is being talked about here?
Q9

Answer:
Cristiano
Ronaldo's
SIUUUU
Celebration

These are the lyrics of an unreleased song ‘XY’ by the band ___
_________, who composed this song during their stay in India.
They were enchanted by the beauty of the city XY, which was
then a peaceful retreat town. XY has become a city due the
result of a long "struggle" that culminated in late 2000.
X X Y, X Y Y/ X X Y/X Y Y/ Many Roads can take you there /Many
different ways/one direction takes you weeks/ another takes you
days/ many people on the roads /looking at the sights/ Many
others with their troubles/looking for their rights/see them move
along the roads/in search of a life divine/beggars in a gold mine …X
X Y/X Y Y”
Name the Band and the town XY
Q10

Answer:
The Beatles, 'XY'-Dehradun (Dehra Dun)

Candidates have to be in 9th and 10th standard, have no exams,
should be able to give priority to training, should be physically fit, and
also understand that absence for any reason lasting two weeks or
longer may result in failure to qualify for further training. Finally a
total of approximately 250 are chosen from just under 1000 applicants.
In order to qualify for full training, students must pass a written test
on the rules, be able to run at a sustained pace for 12 minutes, be able
to complete a circuit & then stand still for 3 minutes, show good speed
in shuttle runs and pass tests of hand/eye coordination.
Who are these “chosen ones”?
Q11

Answer:
Wimbledon Ball Boys/Girls

According to one of X’s biographers David Hughes, Y wrote an
entire draft of a screenplay for Z, a movie which came out in
the second half of the 90s. X didn’t even deem it worth a
glance, which makes sense since he once called Y’s writing
“weak.” Instead, X worked with Diane Johnson on the
screenplay because he was a fan of her book, “The Shadow
Knows”. The two ended up working 11 weeks on the script and
the movie is largely considered as one of the best in its genre.
ID X,Y & Z.
Q12

Answer:
X- Stanley Kubrick Y- Stephen King
Z- The Shining

Nier: Automata is a action roleplaying game that references several philosophies.
Its characters are named as a combination of a letter and a number.
A fan theory about the character names relating to certain famous literary quotes
fit in beautifully with the game's themes and was later adapted as canon by the
creator.
According to this theory the main character, an android, is named after a famous
quote about the pain of existence, death and life and ties directly into the core
themes of the game about whether it is better to live or not.
Another character is an android who deserts after feeling betrayed by her comrades
and hence is named after a short quote reflecting her feelings.
Give both the character names/The famous lines that inspired their names, both of
which are from the works of the same person.

D1

Answer:
2B - To be or not to be
A2- Et tu, Brute

Connect to a song. (inexhaustive).The song itself is a
"list" of things
D2

ID the movie from the minimalist
poster.
D3

This is a track listing of the soundtrack of a film. Which film is this
and why where the tracks named in this way?
Vespertillo
Eptesicus
Myotis
Barbastella
Artibeus
Tadarida
Macrotus
Antrozous
Nycterus
Molossus
Corynorhinus
Lasiurus
D5

Answer:
Batman Begins. Scientific names of
different genus of Bats

After a week of hype and anticipation on the subreddit r/___________,
over 350,000 users were banned by random selection - much to shock
and dismay of redditors and internet users alike. When it was set up,
it was suggested as a part of the merriment that it would be funny if
at some point half of the subreddit's members were randomly banned.
The moderators of r/_________ had to get permission from Reddit
admins to go through with the ban, and then they had to automate
the process. As word of the upcoming ban spread, hundreds of
thousands of Reddit users flocked to join r/_____________________ just so
they’d have a chance to get ousted. By the time ban day rolled around,
over 700,000 users had subscribed — making the culling by far the
largest “dusting,” or mass ban, in Reddit history. Fill in the blank.
D6

X’s' first Y belonged to his father, a clarinetist. That
instrument was a version of Y used in the west ; however, he
made modifications to suit his playing style over the course
of his musical career. X started out on the acoustic version
of Y, but neither its size nor plucking were suited for long,
sustained notes. X then switched to the electric version of Y,
which was better suited for sustained notes and musical
ornamentations. Unlike a typical Y’s eight strings, X
generally used only five strings. Identify X, a child prodigy
turned master classical instrumentalist, known for having
adapted a difficult western instrument, Y to Carnatic music.
Name X. (If you get Y, then X is easy, since he is better
known as YX)
AV-1

Answer:
X-U Srinivas Y-Mandolin

This is an excerpt from an Impractical Jokers challenge. Identify the
“little fella” and how do we better know him?
AV-2

Answer:
Iain Armitage,Young Sheldon

____ “EDM” ____ is a verified artist on Spotify with
10,899 monthly listeners. His most famous single was
launched on his “Emo G” Records site on SoundCloud
last year with the genre tag #Anime.
The artist claims that he wrote the lyrics and that he
also performed the vocal duties, and to silence any
possible doubters, which he has aplenty, he also
shared a few photos from the studio.
ID the artist/FITB
AV-3

Name the speaker and the song they are
talking about ?
AV-4

Answer:
Taylor Swift, All too well 10 min version

Towards the end of 2015, a surprising
album titled ‘_____ ___!’ was released
and further increased the number of the
artists "followers", although for a
different reason this time. Rolling Stone
magazine notes, among other things,
the influence of the Seventies rock
scene from the artist’s home country,
like the use of the tubular synth. ID the
popular personality who released this
album, and the album in question.
AV-5

Answer:
Pope Francis, Wake Up!

Identify the bowler who dismissed the
batsman in this clip.
AV-6

The game X takes place , ten years after the events of its prequel and 210 years
after the Great War, a war between the two superpowersthat ended in a nuclear
holocaust. The setting is a region that includes parts of Y known as "The
Commonwealth". Unlike the previous titles, X's story begins on the day the bombs
dropped.
The game takes place in an alternate version of history that contains 1940s' and
1950s' aesthetics such as diners and a drive-in theater and design and technology
advance in the directions imagined at that time. The resulting universe is thus a
retro-futuristic one, where the technology has evolved enough to produce laser
weapons, manipulate genes and create nearly-autonomous artificial intelligence,
but all within the confines of 1950s' technology such as the widespread use of
atomic power and vacuum tubes, as well as having the integrated circuitry of the
digital age. Identify the game X.
Mahaconnect-1 +40/-40

X is a American fantasy comedy horror film. The film follows a villainous
comedic trio of witches who are inadvertently resurrected by a virgin teenage
boy on Halloween night. Upon its release in mid-1993, it received mixed
reviews from film critics and was a box office failure, having an estimated loss
of a little less than $17 million during its theatrical run. However, largely
through many annual airings on Disney Channel and Freeform throughout the
month of October annually, X has been rediscovered by audiences, resulting in
a yearly spike in home video sales of the film every Halloween season. The
annual celebration of Halloween has helped make the film a cult classic. A
sequel of is in production, and is set for a 2022 release as a Disney+ original
film. Leonardo DiCaprio was originally offered the lead role in X but declined it
to pursue What's Eating Gilbert Grape. X takes its name from a phrase said by
magicians while they perform tricks, often as the stereotypical magic words
spoken when bringing about some sort of change. Name X.

X is an American horror film series, with varying sub-genres of
horror, slasher subgenre mainly. The films are based on Y’s
book series of the same name. The overall story revolves
around teenagers who work to break the curse that has been
over their town for hundreds of years. Y is the author of
several horror fiction novel series and is one of the most
prolific children’s book authors. The three films were shot
back-to-back, and were released on a weekly basis as Netflix
Original Films in mid-2021 to positive reviews. The trilogy of
films is R-rated, with original novel series praising the
direction and adaptations of his books. Identify X.

Answer:
Fear Street Trilogy
Y-RL Stine

This is an old image an iconic American Building. In the ______
______ films, the headquarters of X, a magical organisation
are concealed inside it to hide it from non-magical people.
Name X.

“Am I the true you, or are you the true You?” This
question, a part of an important thought experiment was
integral to the finale of “X”, the first of its kind. X
drastically, but much expectedly changed genres, in
between parts and is an eloquent representation of an
aggrieved person wanting to live life in their own bubble.
Identify the television miniseries X. Also name its
upcoming dark comedy spin-off, Y which will focus on one
of the characters of X.

Answer:
X-Wandavision, Y-Agatha:House of
Harkness

The __________is an opera based on the 1953 play of the same name by Y. It
won both the Pulitzer Prize for Music and the New York Music Critics Circle
Citation. The libretto was lightly adapted from Y's text. It is one of the
most performed operas by an American composer. The play by Y on which
it was based was written as an allegory for McCarthyism and the Red
Scare, which occurred in the United States in the 1950s. Y was himself
questioned by the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and
convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present
at meetings he had attended. The word "________" is defined as a severe
test or trial. The characters of the opera whose moral standards prevail in
the face of death, symbolically refuse to sacrifice their principles or to
falsely confess. FITB.

Mahaconnect Answer:
Salem Witch Trials

The image below is of a scene from a film produced under the banner of one of the
prominent production companies of Bollywood. The personality X depicted in this
image did a cameo role in this film. But, at present, X is one of the most famous
directors in Bollywood. The last film directed by him Y was a sequel, both of which
were produced by the same production company for which he acted in this film.
Identify X and Y.

Answer:
X-Punit Malhotra, Y-Student of The Year 2

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