2. Two rounds final
Round 1 has 15 questions, infinite bounce,
going clockwise
Round 2 has 15 questions, infinite bounce,
going anti-clockwise
+10/-5 on Pounce
3. Clockwise and Infinite Bounce
10 points for every correct answer
+10/-5 on Pounce
4. Connect the following lyrics with the
gentleman in the pic.
When I get to the bottom I go back to the
top of the slide
Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride
Till I get to the bottom and I see you again
Yeah yeah yeah hey
Do you, don't you want me to love you
I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above
you
Tell me tell me tell me come on tell me the
answer
Well you may be a lover but you ain't no
dancer
6. The lyrics are from the song Helter Skelter by the
Beatles. This song is believed to have inspired
serial killer Charles Manson.
The pic is that of Marilyn Manson who takes his
stage name from Marilyn Monroe and Charles
Manson
7. The first documented mention of this phrase is in
the Scottish Acts of Parliament of James I, written
in 1432:
That the offender be taken ___ ___, may be
persewed, and put to the knawledge of ane
Assise, befoir the Barron or Landeslord of the
land or ground, quhidder the offender be his
tennent, unto quhom the wrang is done or not…
And uthers not taken ___ ___, to be alwaies
persewed befoir the…
10. The opening sequence of this
movie features the character
Enid (Thora Birch) dancing in
front of the TV to a song from
another thriller.
ID the thriller.
12. Gumnaam (scenes from the song Jaan Pehchaan
Ho is played in the opening sequence)
13. The initial nine, aside from Eliot Ness were:
Bill Gardner, Native American member of the squad, an expert at undercover work, former
athlete, former soldier, and lawyer; he was the oldest member, at age 50
Lyle Chapman, a former Colgate University football player, tactician, and investigator
Barney Cloonan, a muscular Irish agent known for his strength
Martin J. Lahart, another muscular Irish boxer and sports enthusiast
Thomas J. Friel, a former Pennsylvania state trooper
Mike King, a deceptively ordinary looking analyst and tactician
Joe Leeson, an expert driver with the specialty of tailing
Paul W. Robsky, a short and unobtrusive wire-tapping expert
Samuel M. Seager, a former death row Corrections Officer
What were they collectively called?
16. The line-up scene was originally intended to be
serious, yet the actors were messing around so
much that director decided to put the funniest
version in.
Blame supposedly lies with Benicio Del Toro's
flatulence.
What are we talking about?
19. In the village of Bhidosa, there arose a land dispute between X and Babu
Singh. Babu Singh was the head of a 250 member family, and had seven
licensed guns.
To solve the dispute, a panchayat was held with the collector where X was
asked to pay ₹3,000 to Babu Singh for his own land; to which X agreed.
However, his nephew retaliated at the injustice of it all. In the meantime,
Babu Singh came to X's house and beat up his 95 year old mother.
She asked X to take avenge the wrongdoing, prompted by which X sought
out Babu and shot him.
As a minor footnote, Babu continued to run for about a kilometer before he
fell dead.
ID X.
25. The 1938 stage play X, known as Angel Street in the United States, motivated
the origin of the term because of the systematic psychological manipulation
used by the main character on a victim.
The plot concerns a husband who attempts to convince his wife and others
that she is insane by manipulating small elements of their environment, and
subsequently, insisting that she is mistaken or remembering things incorrectly
when she points out these changes.
The original title stems from the dimming of the Xs in the house that
happened when the husband was using the Xs in the attic while searching for
hidden treasure.
The wife accurately notices the dimming and discusses the phenomenon, but
the husband insists she is imagining a change in the level of illumination.
Either give us X or the originating term.
28. In 1999, Bob Balaban asked X if there was something
they could develop together, and X suggested a
whodunit.
X wanted to create an Agatha Christie-like country
house murder mystery that explored that way of life; he
called the film a "classic situation: all suspects under one
roof". He was also inspired by the 1930s films, “The
Rules of the Game” and “Charlie Chan in London”.
What resulted? (X is not required and has been put in to
hide clues)
31. On the sets of Bigg Boss 5 back
in 2011, the lady in pic was
asked by TV anchor Mandeep
Belvi if she had consummated
her marriage, leading to a
huge uproar.
Apart from the predictable
backlash to such a personal
question, why is her marriage
itself such a big talk?
33. The hubby in question is Charles Shobraj (Nihit
Biswas being the lady)
34. Michael Lanyard is a jewel thief turned private
detective in a series of novels written by Louis
Joseph Vance .
What nickname, which would find much more
relevance in modern day live quizzing was given
to this thief?
39. To kill Bulgarian dissident writer Georgi Markov
by firing a poisoned pellet into his leg
40. The 1982 Tom Skerritt film
Fighting Back featured footage
of this event in its opening
credits.
In the Frederick Forsyth novel
The Fourth Protocol, the event
is directly referenced as a
badly executed plot wherein X
initially acts alone, but is
supported by the KGB once his
intent is discovered.
X is shown in the pic. What
event are we talking about?
43. On 28th June, 1914 when Gavrilo Princep shot Archduke
Ferdinand, it apparently triggered off World War I.
It seems that several physicians were traveling with the
Archduke's party and he was immediately taken into the
care of highly skilled medical professionals. They first had
to examine the Archduke's wound, but when they tried to
unbutton the royal tunic, they were unable to do so.
Precious time was lost and delay in stopping the blood
loss cost the Archduke his life.
Question is why could the doctors not take the tunic off?
45. The buttons in the vain Archduke’s dress were
merely an embellishment and were not
functional.
To ensure a perfect fit, the Archduke would “sew
himself” into his dress every morning.
By the time the doctors discovered the secret of
his sartorial splendor and cut away his clothing,
Archduke Ferdinand had bled out and died.
46. The noted British Shakespearean actor Junius
Brutus and his mistress Mary Ann Holmes, came
to the United States from England in June 1821.
X was born in 1838 and was the 9th of 10 children.
X and his brother Edwin went on to become actors
and became rivals later in life for achievement and
acclaim.
Who was X?
49. Anti-Clockwise and Infinite Bounce
10 points for every correct answer
+10/-5 on Pounce
50. Deathconsciousness is the
debut album by American
band Have a Nice Life
released in 2008.
What is the inspiration for
the album cover shown in
the pic?
52. La Mort De Marat by Jacques Louis David;
dealing with the assassination of the French
leader Jean Marat
53. Drop a letter from what you would consider a
“normal” adult and we get a possessive mother.
Replace the dropped letter with another and we
get a child dependent on his mother.
What is being talked about?
55. The characters of Norman Bates and his mother
Norma in Psycho.
This was the explanation given by author Robert
Bloch behind the names of the central characters.
56. As he was hanging around the court, he overheard a
12-year-old girl telling the jury what had happened to
her. Her story intrigued him, and he began watching
the trial.
He saw how the members of the jury cried as she told
them about having been raped and beaten.
Musing over "what would have happened if the girl's
father had murdered her assailants", a story was born.
Which story?
59. A few months ago, the
lady in the pic said “I
would love to meet him
and sort out a few issues. I
don’t know whether he
will meet me ever, but I
really want to”.
Who did she want to meet
with and talk things over?
61. Rubel Hossain, who she had accused of “outraging her
modesty”.
She promptly retracted the accusations after Bangladesh
made the quarter finals and reportedly even professed her
love for Rubel, “forgiving” him for his “misdeed”.
BTW.. She is named Najnin Akter Happy
62. In 1986, she testified before the Meese Commission,
"Virtually every time someone watches that movie, they're
watching me being raped."
In the Toronto Sun on March 20, 1981 she said, "It is a
crime that movie is still showing; there was a gun to my
head the entire time."
It is claimed that bruises are visible on her body in the
movie, which would corroborate the fact that she was
physically abused during the filming.
Who are we talking about?
70. Mutiny on the Bounty (Mutineers casting off Capt
Ivo Bligh and his group of loyalists)
71. K. M. Nanavati vs. State of Maharashtra was a 1959
Indian court case where Kawas Manekshaw Nanavati,
a Naval Commander, was tried for the murder of
Prem Ahuja, his wife's lover.
Nanavati, accused under section 302, was initially
declared not guilty but the verdict was dismissed by
the Bombay High Court and the case was retried as a
bench trial.
In what way is this case important in the annals of
Indian law?
80. In a 1939 lecture at Columbia University, one of X’s
biggest proponents said:
It might be a Scottish name, taken from a story about two
men on a train. One man says, "What's that package up
there in the baggage rack?" And the other answers, "Oh,
that's a X". The first one asks, "What's a X?" "Well," the
other man says, "it's an apparatus for trapping lions in the
Scottish Highlands." The first man says, "But there are no
lions in the Scottish Highlands," and the other one
answers, "Well then, that's no X!" So you see that a X is
actually nothing at all.
Apart from being nothing at all, what is X?
83. While at Harvard, X was among the twenty-two Harvard undergraduates used
as research subjects in the ethically questionable experiments conducted by
Henry Murray.
Among other purposes, Murray's experiments were focused on measuring
people's reactions under extreme stress. The unwitting undergraduates were
submitted to what Murray himself called "vehement, sweeping and personally
abusive" attacks.
X earned his PhD with his thesis entitled "Boundary Functions" by solving a
problem so difficult that Maxwell Reade, a retired math professor commented,
"I would guess that maybe 10 or 12 men in the country understood or
appreciated it.“
ID X, who also finds a fleeting mention in the movie “Good Will Hunting”
along with Ramanujan.
86. In his efforts to finance his drug habit, he became
known as the "Building Society Bandit" and the
"Gentleman Bandit", because he had chosen to rob
only institutions with adequate insurance, he
would wear a three-piece suit, and he always said
"please" and "thank you" to the people he robbed.
His best friend's mother gave him a name, which
means "Man of Peace“ or "Man of God's Peace“.
Who?
89. This was a rare instance of the
subject using the photographer to
make the photograph so their
message could get out.
It was taken in Masaya,
Nicaragua just before the popular
insurrection against the Somoza
dictatorship took hold. The
indigenous community used
these traditional dance masks to
protect their identity.
What are they doing in this pic?
91. They were practising future attacks with
homemade contact bombs and wanted the world
to know
92. When police tried to take a mugshot of him, he
protested. He wanted them to use Photoshopped
studio images he had posted online.
The police refused and went on to take the photo
anyhow. They were astonished when he stripped to
his underwear for the shot and with a sudden,
grotesque theatricality, adopted a proud body-
builder’s pose, side on, hand on hip with muscles
flexed.
Who?
