Quizmasters: Anusha, Namita, Pratyush

1. Quiz Meet
17-03-2012
- Pratyush, Namita,Anusha

2. Too many X’s here for one’s liking

3. Birthday Question
• Xis a retired American soccer player. Hamm
played many years as a forward for the United
States women's national soccer team and was a
founding member of the Washington Freedom.
Hamm has scored more international goals in her
career than any other player, male or female, in
the history of U.S. soccer (158). She is the second
most capped female player in soccer history
behind Kristine Lilly, appearing in 275
international matches throughout her career.

4. Id
• He was born on 20 July 1950 in Barabanki, Uttar
Pradesh, India where his father was a Judicial Officer. His family
hails from Sardhana in District Meerut (Uttar Pradesh).He is a
descendant of the 19th-century Afghan warlord Jan Fishan Khan,
and related to an Afghan Sufi writer , a Pakistani actor, the Director
General of IB, Pakistan and an English cricketer.
He has an elder brother who retired from the Indian Army in early
2008 as Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Planning and Systems) and
formerly commanded Dimapur based 3 Corps.
• In 1998, he played the role of Mahatma Gandhi in a play. With this
he finally achieved his objective of portraying Mahatma Gandhi, a
role he had auditioned for Richard Attenborough's Gandhi.

5. Heretics!

6. • The term “X prose" is derived from a reference by the
Roman poet Horace.
• X prose is a term of literary criticism used to describe
passages, or sometimes entire literary works, written
in prose so extravagant, ornate, or flowery as to break the
flow and draw attention to itself. X prose is sensually
evocative beyond the requirements of its context. It also
refers to writing that employs certain rhetorical effects such
as exaggerated sentiment or pathos in an attempt to
manipulate a reader's response.
• The term X Y is also used in a more general, and more
unequivocally positive, sense to refer to a period of
outstanding achievement. This usage is particularly
common in sporting contexts in some countries.

7. • The phrase, “X", has been used with variations to
describe certain global empires.
• It was originally used for the Spanish Empire,
mainly in the 16th and 17th centuries, and for
the British Empire, mainly in the 19th and early
20th centuries. Especially in the 20th century, the
metaphor (usually without the word "Empire")
has been transferred to refer to American power.
• The idea has been traced to a speech
in Herodotus' Histories, made by Xerxes I of
Persia before invading Greece.

8. Random Guesses, On your way…
• The Captain of HMS Beagle, Robert FitzRoy, was about to
embark on a survey expedition to South America, but he
was afraid of the stress and loneliness of such a voyage
(indeed, they have driven the previous captain of the ship
to commit suicide). So FitzRoy, who was an ardent follower
of Lavart, asked his superiors for a well-educated and
scientific gentleman companion to come along as an
unpaid naturalist whom he could treat as an equal. The
professors at Cambridge recommended then 22-years old
Charles Darwin for the trip.
Darwin and FitzRoy got on very well but later Darwin came
to know that he had almost not got picked for the voyage
on account of certain perceived deficiencies by the captain.
What influenced the captain’s earlier judgement ?

9. The Beatles were there..
• Chester Barrie
• Chittleborough & Morgan
• Davies and Son
• Dege & Skinner
• Gieves & Hawkes
• H. Huntsman & Sons
• Hardy Amies
• Henry Poole & Co
• Kilgour
• Norton & Sons
• Nutters of X
• Ozwald Boateng
• Richard Anderson
• Richard James
• Stowers Bespoke
• Steed Y Tailors

10. The list is more or less exhaustive. Though some people say it doesn’t include
a green apple.
* denotes time spent with, but not ultimately eat.
• - bagel (X) -jelly doughnut (Z)
- baguette (Y) - lollipop (A)
- baked beans (Z) - meatloaf (Z)
- bar nuts (A) - meat and potatoes* (O)
- battle food, Greek (D) - nachos (A)
- carrot, cooked (E) - olive (X)
- carrot, raw (Z) - pancakes (X)
- caviar (F) - peach (X)
- cereal (X) - peanut butter (E)
- cheeseburger, bacon (A) - popcorn (F, G)
- cheeseburger, regular (G, H) - Popsicle (I)
- chewing gum (I, B, C) - pot roast (X)
- chicken breast (X) - prison gruel (M)
- chili* (H) - ramen or maybe udon noodles (I)
- cookies, Christmas (G) - room service (C)
- cookies, regular (E) - sandwich, ham, cheese, and sardine* (P)
- corn chips (C) - sandwich, turkey (E)
- corned beef and cabbage (J) - sandwich, unidentified (J)
- cotton candy (A) - shrimp cocktail (A)
- dumplings (C) - soup ( M)
- eggs and bacon (E) - stir-fry (C)
- French fries (G) - sunflower seeds (G)
- ham (K) - toast (E)
- human blood (L) -- takeout, unidentified* (N)
- ice cream/sorbet concoction (G, A) - Tibetan knot pastry (M)
- Jamba Juice smoothie (I) - trail mix (M)
- takeout, Chinese ( F, H) - Twinkie (G)

11. Which city ?
• The city was founded in 1607 AD by Sheikh X, a.k.a. Baba X, treasurer
of Jahangir and a Sufi saint, with the object of protecting the Grand Trunk
Road (now NH 2 highway) which passed through the town. Sheikh X built a fort, a
tank and a mosque which are now in ruins. Later on, it became the headquarters
of a Pargana which was held in jagir by Ballabgarh ruler.
• The foundation of the modern city was mainly laid by Hindu refugees. A social
worker named Sudhir Ghosh encouraged them to build their own homes.
However, the government wanted to build the houses through PWD. In protest, a
group of refugees beseiged Prime Minister Nehru’s house and were in turn termed
as a “nuisance” by him. In a typically Indian compromise, refugees were alloted
40% of the houses with the PWD constructing the rest.
• To power the city a diesel plant was erected at short notice. The plant lay in ruin in
Calcutta, where it had come as a part of German war preparations and from where
it was brought. Sudhir Ghosh located the German engineer who had built the
plant. The engineer came and trained the local men to operate jack-screws and
with the help of whom the plant was repaired in 10 months. Nehru himself came
to commission it and press the button to light up the city.

12. X is a phrase. Guess it.
• The ”X” rule is a historical colloquial term in the United
States for the social classification as black of individuals
with any African ancestry. The principle was an
example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment of
children of a mixed union between different
socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the
lower status. The rule was not adopted as law until the
20th century: first in Tennessee in 1910 and
in Virginia under the Racial Integrity Act of 1924
(following the passage of similar laws in numerous
other states). This defined a person as legally "colored"
(black) for classification and legal purposes if the
individual had any African ancestry.

13. Headless Chicken!
• X hails from Ottapalam in Palakkad district of Kerala.
He comes from a family of diplomats and aristocrats.
His father was also a career diplomat and served as the
ambassador to Yugoslavia in his last days. His
grandfather was India's first foreign secretary,
while his uncle was the former Indian ambassador to
China.
• In spite of his busy schedule in the Indian Foreign
Service he has managed to keep up with his interests in
classical music and the Himalayas. The Scindia School
conferred on him "Madhav Award" as an alumnus of
eminence for the year 2000.

14. One of its first demonstrations in mainstream
media was in the David Letterman show in 1999
by a high school teacher Lee Marek.
It didn’t catch the popular imagination till 2006
when a video showing this went viral.
By September 2007, one of the video showing
this reached 10 million views.
It has also been the subject of a 2006 Mythbuster
episode.
What am I talking about ?

15. • Meyrick Edward Clifton James (born 1898
in Perth, Western Australia, Australia; died 8 May
1963 in Worthing, Sussex, England) was an actor
with a slight drinking problem.
• This average guy, in the words of
British Lieutenant-Colonel, J. V. B. Jervis-Reid, it
seemed, had 'rescued' a failing patriotic show by
appearing in it, quite briefly, as 'Monty’ .
• What important role did he play in the WW-II ?

16. What has been blanked out ?

17. The place blanked out ?

18. X and the work he appears in.
• The film Taxi Driver (1976) follows Travis Bickle,
who seems to be a representation of X, only older
and more confrontational. The list of similarities
is long, from analyzing the fact that both of them
obsess over women and try to protect the
innocence of children, to the fact that both of
them purchase a prostitute without actually
having sex with her. They both live in New York
City, and though they only see all of the filth in
the city (as they are incredibly pessimistic), and
vow to leave, neither of them actually departs.

19. The two movies being referenced
here. One of them would be quite
apparent. The other’s a cult movie.

20. • The practice dates back to 1924, when 70 per
cent of total government expenditure was
meant for a certain infrastructure ministry.
• There have been calls to end this somewhat
outdated tradition but it still goes on.
• What am I talking about ?

22. What is X, in news recently ?
• With regard to transfusions of packed red blood cells, individuals
with type O Rh D negative blood are often called universal donors,
and those with type AB Rh D positive blood are called universal
recipients; however, these terms are only generally true with
respect to possible reactions of the recipient's anti-A and anti-B
antibodies to transfused red blood cells, and also possible
sensitization to Rh D antigens. One exception is individuals with hh
antigen system (also known as the X phenotype) who can only
receive blood safely from other hh donors, because they form
antibodies against the H antigen present on all red blood cells.
• This very rare Phenotype is generally present in about 0.0004%
(about 4 per million) of the human population, though in some
places locals can have occurrences in as much as 0.01% (1 in
10,000) of inhabitants.

23. The gentleman on the left holds a unique distinction
with respect to our noisy neighbour. Who is he and
what is the distinction ?

24. A scene from the trailer of MIB –III.
Who is the character on the left ?

25. • Madhu Dandavate was a pragmatic railway minister in
Morarji Desai’s government whose socialism eschewed
rhetoric against the rich in favour of policies for the
poor. In his own words: ‘what I want to do is not
degrade the first class, but elevate the second class’
• He initiated computerization of railway reservations,
reduced corruption among booking clerks and
uncertainty among passangers. He set in motion the
repair of 5000 km of worn-out tracks. But his most far-
reaching initative was something else. What was it ?

26. • Alan Moore stated in a 2008 interview
with Entertainment Weekly :
• I was also quite heartened the other day when
watching the news to see that there were
demonstrations outside the Scientology
headquarters over here, and that they
suddenly flashed to a clip showing all these
demonstrators wearing ____________. That
pleased me. That gave me a warm little glow.

28. The long Family Tree Connect
• X, also known as Ambarish Das is the great grandson of a legendary
industrialist Y who even has a modern economic and social system
named after him.
• X’s wife shares her first name with an Indian actress A , the great-
grand niece of a famous poet B.
• A’s daughter is also an actress and used to work for an organization
run by X’s family before she embarked on her film career.
• A’s brother C was once married to D, the daughter of E, a socialite-
cum social worker who was one of Sanjay Gandhi’s close associates
and played an important role in his sterilization drive.
• D is the great grand daughter of F, a famous civil contractor and
builder. F’s son G is a very famous writer.
Give A-G and X-Y.