Mindsport 2018 | School Quiz at Don Bosco School, Park Circus

Terms and Conditions:
• There will be a total of 4 rounds (2 dries, 1 written and 1 pounce-
only.)
• Each team is requested to keep a tally of their scores, in case any
discrepancy arises.
• Golden rule of any and every quiz : The quizmaster(s) is/are always
right.
• If you think otherwise, please refer to the picture in the next slide.

Put Funda.
This is a house in Nowhere,
New Mexico. An elderly
couple who lived in this house
with their pet dog frequently
reported bizarre and
paranormal activity, including
a creature they identified as a
Skin Walker. After their
report, the couple went
missing under strange
circumstances. Only the dog
was found.
Where have we seen an
adaptation this?
US

Procedure:
• 16 questions.
• Infinite bounce and infinite pounce applicable.
• +10/-5 on pounce and +10 for directs or passes.

i. Tutorial for?
“Close the mouth at the right corner with a suave and nimble
movement, and open it at the left side, as if you were smiling secretly -
not in an artificial manner, but as though unconsciously – this is not
affection, if it is done in moderation and in a restrained and graceful
manner and accompanied by innocent coquetry and certain
movements of the eyes.”
This is a guide found in Agnolo Firenzoula’s book Della Perfetta (Of The
Perfect Beauty Of A Woman).
US

ii. Fill in the somewhat over-edited blanks.
Drummer/percussionist and occasional vocalist of the pop rock outfit,
The Beatles, Ringo Starr was recently awarded a knighthood for his
services to hard world of music, in general.
The Telegraph in London ran a headline in its paper, the day the good
news was announced, which was a clever pun on a famous Beatles
album.
Put on your thinking caps and fill in the headline.
(Image next slide)
AG

“A Hard Day’s Knight”, referring to “A Hard Day’s Night”
album of The Beatles

ID this iconic
duo, whose
works are an
indelible part of
our childhood.
iii.
SS

iv. Put Funda.
Wrestler and entertainer-turned-politician Jesse Ventura once worked
as a bodyguard to the Rolling Stones and witnessed one of Ronnie
Wood and Keith Richards’ most embarrassing druggie moments.
He says, and I quote, "Keith and Woody were in the dressing room and
their manager burst in and said, 'The police are here.' Keith said,
'Wood and I are flushing everything down the toilet,' and 30 seconds
later […]”
So, what happened next, that might have taken their breath away?
Broad strokes will do.
SS

Sting enters/The
Police (band) enters.

Whose list of
‘Following’ on
Twitter?
v.
US

KFC
These are the 11 “Herbs and
Spices” of KFC Fried Chicken
recipe fame.

vi. Search trend for what? Very current affairs.
Basic funda will do.
SS

Cambridge
Analytica.
Data leaks/Facebook
controversy.

vii. Who?
The suicide of X’s oldest son spurred the most recent report on several
sites, claiming that he left a suicide note referring to Justin Trudeau as
his half-brother. A theory that X was Trudeau’s father was also shared
widely on social media after X’s death in 2016, when Trudeau caused
an uproar over remarks praising the late leader.
Trudeau was born a little more than nine months after the marriage of
his parents and more than four years before Margaret made a much-
publicized first trip to X’s and met him. Margaret was 22 when she
married the 51-year-old prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, and was the
subject of intense media scrutiny. Experts say it would have been
impossible for an earlier visit to X’s country to go unnoticed.
In the Bay of Pigs mission of COD: Black Ops, the protagonist must kill
X, echoing the US government’s attempt to do the same.
Keeping Trudeau’s face in mind, work out who is X.
AG

viii. X?
According to the Ericsson, the firm behind X, “X was named after a
Danish king, King Harald Blatand, who had a penchant for snacking on
blueberries (which gave him his characteristic feature) and was known
for uniting warring factions in what is now Denmark, Norway and
Sweden. Uniting devices from different manufacturers and with
different purposes, like computers from Apple and mice from
Microsoft, […goes on to explain the function of X]”
As for the icon, it’s a combination of the Danish Runes for H and B (for
Harald Balatand).
AG

ix. What be X?
In 1994, X touted the power of speech and communications for BT,
noting that the species' greatest failures often come from "not talking".
He said, ''For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals.
Then, something happened which unleashed the power of our
imagination: we learned to talk.”
He leveraged BT's technology as a means of delivering a prosperous
future and just 24 years later, the telecom firm serves information to
customers through the internet in what is no doubt an execution of his
vision in the ad.
That ad moved David Gilmour so much that he sampled X’s words from
the advert for the track ‘Keep Talking’ on Pink Floyd’s album The
Division Bell.
AG

xi. X?
Legend has it that one of the first Chinese restaurants to open in San
Francisco during the Gold Rush was the site of X’s invention. The story
goes that one night in 1849, a group of drunk miners piled into Macao
and Woosung restaurant. They were hungry. They called out for food.
The owner was tired and ready to close up, so instead of whipping up
dishes from scratch, he scraped scraps of food from previous
customers’ plates and served it to the miners. They loved it and X was
born. When asked what it was called, the cranky owner muttered some
words in Chinese which roughly meant “bits and pieces from here and
there” and the inebriated diggers took that to be the name of the dish.
AG

xii. What are these? Think from a quizzing POV.
AG

xiii. Tweet by
which football
club?
US

xiv. Identify the singer and the subject of the
song. (5+5)
(Video next slide.)
SS

xv. Photo ID.
With Avengers: Infinity War hitting the theatres today, and
fans riding the hype-train of what is arguably MCU’s greatest
production till date, in terms of cast and cost, BossLogic (artist
for DeviantArt, a website promoting fanart) uploaded a
picture of the cast of the Avengers Infinity War and then
some, doing something, which is reminiscent of the post-
credit scene in The Avengers (2012).
(Picture in the next slide)
US

xvi. Where?
Bob Ross was an American painter, art instructor, and television host.
He was the creator and host of The Joy of Painting, an instructional
television program on PBS.
Ross used the wet-on-wet oil painting technique, in which the painter
continues adding paint on top of still-wet paint rather than waiting a
lengthy amount of time to allow each layer of paint to dry.
Where have we seen a likeness of Ross recently, saying, “What you
don’t want to do is eat this paint. Trust me on this one”, while painting
some trees?
AG

Rules:
• There are 10 images in total, each badly explaining a movie plot.
• You have to identify the movie being badly explained.
• The explanations are pointed and accurate, and provide an alternative
(albeit, humorous) take on the respective plots of the films.
• +5 for each correct answer and an additional +20 for a full house.
• WRITE down your answers instead of blurting them out and thereby
jeopardizing your scoring chances.
• An example slide follows (which is also, in fact, an audience question).

Home Alone 2:
Lost in New York

Batman v
Superman:
Dawn of Justice

i. Who and what?
X has said he could never have taken over the role of Y, famous in
a fantasy film saga, after the death of Richard Harris because he
knew Harris disapproved of him as an actor.
Harris died in 2002 after starring in the first two films in the
franchise and was replaced by Michael Gambon for the rest of the
series. Harris once described X as "technically brilliant but
passionless".
X best known for his portrayal of a wizard in another fantasy
series, dismissed Harris's criticisms as "rubbish". He said, "When
he died, he played Y. I played a real wizard. He added, "When I see
the posters of Mike Gambon, who gloriously played Y, I think
sometimes it's me. We get asked for each other's autographs."
US

Sir Ian McKellen; Albus Dumbledore

ii. X n’ Y
X, a household name in any urban or semi-urban Bengali house for
the better part of the past two decades, shot to fame in 1994 with
the release of his album “Shunte Ki Chao.”
Arguably X’s most famous song Y, echoed the state of Bengal back
in the day. It was sung from the perspective of a youth who had
just landed a job and was already dreaming of a happy middle-
class life with his beloved Y. Every verse describing their life
together was succeeded by pleas asking if he had called the right
number. As the song peaked in popularity, and even years later,
people would reportedly call up the number and actually ask for Y.
The number’s origin was unknown until X, in an interview with the
Dhaka Tribune, said that the 7 digit number was the contact of a
newspaper editor who had actually filed a case against him.
Brownie points for the 7 digit number.
US

Anjan Dutta; Bela Bose
The number being 2441139

iii. FITB.
A Tinder profile created
recently in order to
remedy a tragedy, in
regards to fauna.
Unfortunately, everything
was rendered moot due
to the untimely demise
of Sudan.
AG

iv. Graph for which Google search trend?
US

Searches for
“International Men’s
Day”
FYI, It’s on November 19th,
and the search usually spikes
on 8th March, which is
International Women’s Day.

v. What?
The term, coined by Edward Lorenz, is derived from the metaphorical
example of the details of a tornado being influenced by minor
perturbations such as the movement of a distant X several weeks earlier.
A very small change in initial conditions can create a significantly
different outcome.
The X does not power or directly create the tornado in the sense that
the movement is a part of the initial conditions. The movement
represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which
cascades to large-scale alterations of events.
The X effect is most familiar in terms of weather.
In popular culture, the X effect grained prominence with it being the
focus in the 2015 horror game, Until Dawn, where even the tiniest of
decisions left the biggest of impacts.
US

vi. XY?
XY is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio,
created by Yuko Shimizu and currently designed by Yuko Yamaguchi.
According to her backstory, she is a perpetual 3rd grade student (not
what she appears to be) who lives outside London, with her family and
pet cat, Charmmy Kitty.
Her expressionless face, with notably no face and a red bow, has been
featured on countless toys, not to mention bowling balls, motor oil, a
Fender Stratocaster, a pricey Judith Leiber clutch, sanitary napkins and
men's underwear. She's inspired a controversial song by Avril Lavigne,
works of sculpture by Tom Sachs and a pretty spectacular dress worn
by Lady Gaga.
AG

vii. What?
First there’s a layer of ladyfingers, then a layer of jam, then custard,
which was made from scratch, then raspberry, more lady fingers, then
beef sautéed with peas and onions, a little bit more custard, and then
bananas and then just some whipped cream on top. And some rum.
What dish is being described here? Also mention the two separate
dishes that were mistakenly amalgamated to form a dish that may be
liked by some, while to others it may taste like feet.
US

Rachel’s English Trifle; English Trifle +
Shepherd’s Pie.

viii. X n’ Y
Pre-revolution colonists loved X. In 1773, Great Britain levied the X Tax
against the American Colonies. Rupert Baines points out that the Tax actually
decreased the overall tax on X, making smuggling less lucrative for people like
John Hancock, an American merchant. In addition to a widely famed political
protest in Massachusetts on December 16, 1773, an organized effort ensued
to stop consuming X altogether and switch to Y.
Thus began the American shift from X to Y. In a concentrated boycott, the
housewives of Falmouth, Massachusetts publicly united, vowing to serve only
Y in their homes.
Soon, it was seen as a betrayal of the colonies to have anything to do with X.
In 3 years, the colonies were at war with Great Britain. The switch to Y took
permanent hold in American culture.
US

ix. XY?
The origins of this term can be traced back to as long as humans
existed (according to some sources) where X was offered an item,
which is commonly misrepresented as an Y. The term then basically
comes from the legend that when X took Y, the item got stuck and
made a lump.
Furthermore, even if it got stuck, X's children wouldn’t somehow also
have it upon birth. But, that is not the case.
Another possibility is as follows: Since during the earlier centuries the
male gender was considered more dominant than the female gender,
man was dominant over knowledge as well. This also trickles down to
differences between men and women.
US

x. Put Funda.
The NATO phonetic alphabet (image in the next slide), commonly
known as the ICAO phonetic alphabet, is the most widely used
radiotelephone spelling alphabet. It uses common English
nouns/proper nouns. The first letter of each word forms the letters of
the words in the message. This cuts down on human error of
mispronunciation and ensures perfect transmission of messages and
codes of paramount importance.
How has the NATO phonetic alphabet fought its way to the heart of
people of a particular fandom, after an incident occurring on
November 18, 2012? Every subsequent occurrence of the incident has
resulted in the NATO phonetic alphabet coming into limelight.
US

Sierra Hotel India
Echo Lima Delta
(S.H.I.E.L.D.)
18th November, 2012 was the
debut of SHIELD in WWE, and
the entrance theme song of
SHIELD has the previously
mentioned series of words as
the opening words on the
track.

xi. X n’ Y (feat. the phrase)
__ ____ ____ ___ __ XY ___ is a colloquialism which is often used as a
proverb. It means that one should not presume to know the
outcome of an event which is still in progress. It cautions against
assuming that the current state of an event is irreversible and clearly
determines how or when the event will end. The phrase is most
commonly used in association with organized competitions,
particularly sports.
The phrase is generally understood to be referencing the
stereotypically overweight sopranos of the opera. The XY is the
Valkyrie Brünnhilde, who is traditionally presented as a very buxom
lady with horned helmet, spear and round. Her farewell scene lasts
almost twenty minutes and leads directly to the finale of the whole
Ring Cycle. As the play, from which the phrase arises is about the end
of the world in a very significant way, it ends with the song of the XY.
US

Fat Lady;
It ain’t over till
the fat lady
sings.

xii. X n’ Y
“Butkus and I had some lean years together,” said X, recalling the dog
whose airfare cost a small fortune. “I kept promising him that if we made
the big time, he’d always go first class.”
“I was surprised that a scruffy animal ‘fleabag,’ trained and for rent to
movie companies, did not come cheaply. Since our budget didn’t allow
even for a feeble hamster, much less a trained dog, the producers asked
if I happened to have a beast of my own. I responded that I had a thing
called Butkus, a throwback to the Stone Age. I talked the proposition
over with Butkus, who promised to give it his best shot.”
According to an interview with X, Butkus died of a heart attack in 1981, a
year before the third film of Y. More recently, in a 2015 interview, X said
of his old friend, who, at one point may have been expendable: “He’s
still my desktop wallpaper.”
AG

X= Sylvester Stallone
Y= Rocky

xiv. What be X?
The folklore surrounding X varies from culture to culture. The Scots
believed a strange X’s arrival to the home signified prosperity. Xs are
also considered good luck in the rest of Britain and Japan. However,
most of Europe look upon them as a sign of evil omen and associate
them with witches. In the Eastern world, as well, Xs are at the center of
various superstitions and beliefs and an X crossing one’s path is
thought to be ominous. Xs are often killed because of that belief and
persons associated with them are ostracized.
SS

xv. X, who art thou?
In recent Egyptian elections, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi won with 92% of the
votes. However, more than 1 million voters spoiled their ballot papers,
by crossing out the names of both candidates and writing the name of
X. In an unprecedented result, X received more votes than the second
candidate, Moussa Mostafa Moussa. X became a national hero by
lifting the hearts of millions of Egyptians on October 8th, 2017,
achieving something for the first time since 1990. X is having the year
of his life in England after his move from Italy.
SS

Regulations:
• 10 questions.
• Only pounce.
• +10 * (number of teams who pounced incorrectly or didn’t pounce), if
you get it right.
• -10 * (number of teams who didn’t pounce or got it correct), if you
get it wrong on the pounce.
• Note: if all the teams get the question correct, each team will be
awarded 10 points each. -10 each, if all teams get it wrong.

i. X?
X, the former prime minister of Italy, has made a reputation for his
witty quotes and remarks. A few of them are as follows:
“I have little hair because my brain is so big it pushes the hair out.”
“I will take questions from the guys, but from the girls I want telephone
numbers.”
“I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I put up with
everyone, I sacrifice myself for everyone.”
“Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for
vacation.”
X was also the owner of AC Milan until last year.
SB

ii. With an aggregate of six Nobel prizes, name
the family with the most number of Nobel
laureates.
SaS

iii. X?
The WWE Hall of Fame welcomed its first Indian member when well-known
wrestler X was included in the legacy wing for his contribution to the sport.
The legendary “Pehelwan” was quite popular in the wrestling circuits in the
1940s through 1983 and in that period, he had great matches against the likes
of Japanese pro-wrestling pioneer Rikidōzan and WWE legend Lou Thesz whom
he defeated to clinch his first World championship title.
After his retirement from wrestling, X started acting and he soon became a
household name for playing Hanuman in Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayan.
He starred in a number of Bollywood movies such as Faulad, Mard, Mera Naam
Joker, Jab We Met, Anand.
Besides his acting career, he was also quite active in politics and in 2003, he
became the first sportsman to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha. He passed
away in 2012 due to heart attack.
US

iv. List of what?
1. The Phantom of the Opera
2. Chicago
3. The Lion King
4. Cats
5. Les Misérables
SS

Longest running musicals on Broadway

v. X?
X spent most of his childhood in India and began taking piano lessons
at the age of seven. In 1954, at the age of eight, X was sent to study at
St. Peter's School, a boarding school for boys, in Panchgani near
Bombay. At the age of 12, he formed a school band, The Hectics, and
covered rock and roll artists such as Cliff Richard and Little Richard. It
has been said that one of his formative musical influences at the time
was Bollywood singer Lata Mangeshkar, but one of X's former
bandmates from the Hectics has said that "that is a lot of rubbish. The
only music he listened to, and played, was Western pop music." A
friend from the time recalls that he had "an uncanny ability to listen to
the radio and replay what he heard on piano". It was also at St. Peter's
where he began to call himself X, and in February 1963 he moved back
to Zanzibar where he joined his parents at their flat.
AG

ID the river
which came into
public
consciousness in
2014.
vi.
SS

vii. What?
The momentum of the X provides a pleasing sensory
experience, according to user reviews.
The wildly popular X is marketed as an antidote for
ADHD, anxiety and autism — but it's also being
banned in schools across the country.
US

Minimalist
poster for which
TV show?
viii.
SS+AG

ix. What?
X was created in Italy during World War II. Due to rationing of
certain goods, including cocoa, chocolate was in extremely
short supply in Italy and most of Europe. A pastry maker by
the name of Pietro Ferrero took advantage of his town’s
abundance of hazelnuts to make something. After World War
II, X became a delicacy all over Europe. According to Forbes,
with a net worth of $23.4 billion generated by surging X sales,
Pietro Ferrero’s son was the wealthiest person in all of Italy
when he passed away in 2015.
AG

x. Who? Also, what is being referred to?
In the mid 1970s a new partnership was formed between Sharon
Burns and Tom Porter, whose objective was to get people into
pubs on quiet trading nights, by creating entertainment that was
inexpensive to put on and could be run across many outlets
simultaneously.
A quiet, unassuming gentleman, exposed to this development,
returned to India, from England, and did something which drew
some groups of school-goers to Christ the King Church in Kolkata
for a fun afternoon, which, in hindsight, be regarded as the
beginning of an era of thrilling bouts of nail-biting excitement and
triumphant joy. Sadly, this quiet, unassuming gentleman passed
away in 2016, but his legacy is continued by his brother and sons.
AG+SS

Quizzing in India; Neil O’Brien

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