The finals of Quiz_X

1. Welcome to
GREY MATTER presents
QUIZ-x

2. They say fortune favours the brave, so a sitter for
team 1 to start off with
1. Whose neighbor is Uncle Wilson, a retired
gentleman who is always troubled by the
protagonist?

3. No 2. ID??

4. 3. Which TELCO product is named after its
long time chief Sumant Moolgaonkar?

5. 4.

6. 5.This famous Islamic leader was known for his fondness
for bacon and good claret. He avoided the Mosque every
Friday and did not even a single verse of the Koran by
heart

7. SVC

8. +40/-20

9. +30/-15

10. +20/-10

11. +10/-0

12. Round 2

13. 1. Dominance, cold and clammy, crusher,
queen's fingertips and keep back are
varieties of what??

14. 2. What is tricology??

15. • Study of hair and scalp

16. 3.

17. 4. What exactly is russian roulette??

18. 5. Put Funda

19. 6.Logo ID maadi??

20. 7. In an acidic solution, the “lawsone”
molecule can react via a process called
Michael addition with keratin to create a
stain. The Lawsone molecule is also
known as Henatonic acid What do we
know this process as?

21. 8.If
then
????

22. 9.Which company's logo contains sun,
hand, bee, DNA, hair, palm tree, sauce,
bowl, spoon, spice and flavours, fish,
sparkle, bird, tea, lips, icecream, recycle,
particles, frozen, container, heart, clothes,
wave, liquid all within it??

23. 11 Connect

24. 12.
What is this?? Give me something unique
about this for another 5 points into the
bag..

25. SVC II

26. +40/-20

27. +30/-15

28. +20/-10

29. +10/-0

30. Round 3

31. 1. Initially made out of the skin of
animals, leather versions were first
introduced in the East by the Dutch.
Their expensiveness and unreliability
ensured their usage only among the
upper and middle class. First
described in the late 1600’s, the
German military was the first official
body to promote it’s use.

32. 2. This historical drama based on a true
story was halted for more than 20
years because the wife of the chief
protagonist did not want it to be made
while she was alive. Name the movie.

33. 3. In Aug 2010, The Vatican released a
list of items that Britons mustn't bring
with them while attending papal
appearances in Glasgow, London and
Birmingham. Which series of books
featured in this list??..

34. 4.What is going on here??

35. 5.Born Eldrick Tont _____ to Earl _____ and
Tilda _____(originally from thailand). This
makes him half Asian (one-quarter Chinese
and one-quarter Thai), one-quarter African
American, one-eighth Native American, and
one-eighth Dutch. He was nicknamed X in
honor of his father's friend Col. Vuong Dang
Phong,who had also been known as X.

36. 6. What is a hotdog shot??

37. 7. In 1966, snack vendor Ashok Vaidya and
his family, who used to sell potato fritters
in Dadar railway station, were faced with a
special request from a customer, who
wanted his fritters along with another
common food item. Thus, a new delicacy
was born.Vaidya started selling this
regularly from 1971 onwards. What?

38. 8. Id this woman??...

39. 9.Which national holiday?? Happened very
recently..

40. 10. The CIA men heaved a huge sigh of
relief as Renegade, Renaissance,
Radiance and Rosebud made it through
unharmed after another hectic day. How
do we know them as??

41. 11.” When we created the _____, we
thought it would be cool to have a feature
without any specific purpose. People
interpret the _____ in many different ways,
and we encourage you to come up with
your own meanings.” – Mark Zuckerberg

42. 12. At the beginning of most Konvict Muzik
(A music label) songs there is the sound of
the clank of a jail cell, followed by
______uttering "Konvict“. _____ ‘s real
name is Aliaune Damala Badara Thiam.

43. 13. X had a keen interest in cars even
though he did not like to drive. Once, he
teamed up with Ferdinand Z to make
changes to Z’s original design to make it
more suited for the working man. This
resulted in Y. Tell me who X is and what is
Y?

44. 14. William Patrick _____ was born in Liverpool, the son of Alois
____ Jr., and his Irish-born wife Bridget Dowling. They met
in Dublin when Alois was living there in 1909; they were
married in Marylebone and moved back north to Liverpool,
where William was born in 1911. William was allegedly
recalled by elderly former neighbors, and allegedly known in
Liverpool folklore as "Billy" or "Paddy" _____. William later
moved to Germany and subsequently escaped, eventually
going to the United States where he enlisted in the navy to
fight in WWII. After leaving the navy William later changed his
last name to Stuart-Houston, married and lived a normal life
till his death in 1987.

45. 15. The __________Symphony's opening
was used as a call-sign in the European
broadcasts of the BBC during World War II
in reference to Winston Churchill's "V for
Victory".

46. 16. Id this world no.1 player

47. 17. During the Indo-pak war of 1965, _______ was posted at
the border in the Khem Karan sector. He was the sole
survivor of an enemy attack, variously claimed to have
been a bomb, an aerial assault and an exchange of fire at
the border, while he was driving a truck. The experiences
of wartime, coupled with the poverty from which he had
come, affected him. He considered suicide at one point but
turned instead to pondering the meaning of life and
death. He said of the truck attack, “ It sent me thinking. I
felt that God wanted me to stay alive for some reason. I
was reborn in the battlefield of Khem Karan. And I decided
to dedicate my new life to serving people.“ He spent his
spare time reading the works of Swami Vivekananda,
Gandhi and Vinoda Bhave and became heavily influenced
by their ideals.

48. 18.It originally was designated as the
“______ X" (X being its internal
project number). 82 cars were built as
X’s. However, Peugeot protested on
the grounds that in France it had
exclusive rights to car names formed
by three numbers with a zero in the
middle. So, instead of selling the new
model with another name in France,
______ changed the name to Y.

49. 19.X is six foot tall, with blue-grey eyes with a hint of anger,
a rather cruel mouth, and a lean body weighing around
165 pounds. To keep in shape X has been known to
perform a morning routine of 20 slow press-ups, enough
straight-leg lifts to make his stomach muscles scream, 20
toe touches and finally arm and chest exercises combined
with deep breathing until he is dizzy. He has several
visual distinguishing marks; a scar down the right cheek
and on the left shoulder and signs of plastic surgery on
back of his right hand.
He favours a dark blue suit of serge or tropical worsted or
alpaca, depending on the climate, a heavy white silk shirt
and a thin black knitted silk tie and black moccasin shoes.
X has a few accessories, which are expensive, but
unostentatious. These include a Rolex Oyster Perpetual,
a wide, thin cigarette-case of black gun-metal and a black
oxidized Ronson lighter. X has also been known to carry
an attaché case containing thirty rounds of ammunition,
two throwing knives, a cyanide pill and fifty gold
sovereigns and a tube of Palmolive shaving cream
containing a silencer in the case.

50. 20.The ______brothers, Alfieri, Bindo, Carlo, Ettore,
and Ernesto were all involved with automobiles
from the beginning of the 20th century. Alfieri,
Bindo and Ernesto built 2-litre Grand Prix cars
for Diatto. In 1926, Diatto suspended the
production of race cars, leading to the creation of
the first _______ and the founding of the _______
marque. One of the first _______, driven by
Alfieri, won the 1926 Targa Florio. Another
______ brother, Mario, an artist, is believed to
have devised the company emblem based on one
the Fontana del Nettuno, Bologna. n 1937, the
_______ brothers sold their shares in the
company to the Adolfo Orsi family, who in 1940
relocated the company headquarters to their
hometown of Modena where it remains to this

51. 21. List of what??
1.Lady Gaga
2.Justin Bieber
3.Katy Perry
4.Rihanna
5.Shakira
6.Britney Spears
7.Kim Kardashian
8. ________
9.Taylor Swift
10.selena Gomez
11.Nicki Minaj

52. 22.ID the sport

53. 23.

54. 24. Connect

55. Short visual connect

56. +50/-25

57. +40/-20

58. +30/-15

59. +20/-10

60. +10/-0

62. Round 4

63. 1. X Island literally means the island of
Pelicans. X Island is an island located in
the San Francisco Bay, 1.5 miles (2.4 km)
offshore from San Francisco, California,
United States. Often referred to as "The
Rock", the small island was developed with
facilities for a lighthouse, a military
fortification, a military prison, and a Federal
Bureau of Prisons federal prison until
March 21 1963.X has been featured in
many movies, TV shows, cartoons, books,
comics, and games.

64. 2. The bonds that matured in the year 2007
are called..

65. X: Mom, I think of slaying Y ... and
winding him up for good and all. He takes
my mind from better things.
Mom : You won't! You can't! You mustn't!

66. 4. If Brazilian American Supermodel Gisele
Bundchen is second on this list. Then who
is the first???

67. 5.Which company has its founder’s
signature as its logo??

68. 6. Miami U.S.A along with San Jose, Puerto
Rico and X encloses this region called the
XY.

69. SVC

70. +40/-20

71. +30/-15

72. +20/-10

73. +5/0

74. Fin
Thank you!!