Uday and Deepanjan (24-2-2016)

M.U.G.G.L.E QuizDeepanjan Banerjee & Uday Talwar

Rules
• X questions
• First round – 12 questions, +10 for every correct answer, every third question
has a golden snitch worth +20
• Second round – 12 questions + special round
• Infinite pounce and bounce. +10/-10 pounce, +10 bounce
• QM’s word is law. Any questioners will be avada-kedavara’d.

Q1. Coined by Horace Walpole, suggested by The ‘Three Princes of
_______’, the title of a fairy tale in which the heroes ‘were always making
discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of’.
What’s the good word?

Q2. This is a game which is popular in Hallowe’en. The game is played by
filling a tub with water and putting X in the water. X float on the surface
and the objective is to catch one of these with a teeth without using your
arms.
It also finds a mention in one of Agatha Christie’s novel Hallowe'en
Party, which is about a girl who drowns while doing it.

Q4. It has run nearly 6 seasons successfully from October 1995 till date
and has produced more than 450 episodes. B.P. Singh and Pradeep Upoor
are proud producers of the show. Identify it from its iconic theme music.
AUDIO ->

Q5. X is a thriller film Starring Oscar winner Y. It has won Best Picture,
Best Director and best Actor awards at the Madrid film festival. In the
story, Y plants 5 bombs around the city of Colombo. The location of the
bombs includes: on a public bus, in a shopping mall and the Polgoda
Police, a train and at the airfield. Identify X and Y.

Q6. In 2022, a Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing
Game (VRMMORPG) called X is released. With the NerveGear, a helmet
that stimulates the user's five senses via their brain, players can
experience and control their in-game characters with their minds. On
November 6, 10,000 players log into the X's mainframe cyberspace for
the first time and discover that they are unable to log-out. They quickly
discover from Y, the creator of X and NerveGear, they must reach the
100th floor of the game's castle and defeat the final boss if they wish to be
free. Those who suffer in-game destruction or remove the NerveGear out-
of-game will result in their real-life deaths.

Q7. A term derived from an animal, it is used to describe a court
that is crudely and irregularly operated. Speculated origins of
the word are that the Brits thought that these people’s penal
codes couldn’t achieve anything.

Q.8. X is a comic book series co-created by writer Alan Moore and artist
Kevin O'Neill which began in 1999. According to Moore, the concept
behind the series was initially a "Justice League of Victorian England" but
quickly grew into an opportunity to merge many works of fiction into one
world.

Q9. First think of the person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.
Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend,
The middle of middle and end of the end?
And finally give me the sound often heard,
During the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together and answer me this,
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?
Full points for answer. Part points for funda.

Q10. Director Mike Cahill’s X, is a subtle science fiction piece about
regret and second chances. Britt Marling stars as Rhoda, an otherwise
clever young woman whose moment of drunken foolishness ruins both
her own life and that of musician John (William Mapother).
Several years after their lives are changed forever, Rhoda emerges from
prison a shadow of her former self - tentative, guilt-ridden, and with her
career prospects long gone. By sheer coincidence, she crosses paths with
John again, who’s still grieving over the loss of his wife and child. Then
news breaks of the discovery of a distant planet and their lives change
forever as they form an unlikely friendship. ID X.

Q11. Imagine this – You and your best friend work in the company
owned by your multi millionaire dad. You appear for a board meeting but,
as it’s progressing, you get thirsty and take a sip of water. Suddenly and
unbidden, you and your best friend start to hear Baha Men’s ‘Who let the
dogs out’ and decide to sing…only the canine parts, though. Obviously,
you’re kicked out of the meeting and stuffed in an asylum but, with the
perk of an attractive doctor taking care of you, so you have that going for
you, which is nice.
She understands that you’re not actually crazy and decides to release you.
When the happy day actually appears, you get a taste of the Brunelle’s
theory of identities.
What does your life resemble and why should you wish to never have
such a life?

Q12. FITB (bonus point for doing it justice)

Answers
1. Serendipity
2. Apple bobbing
3. Fredrico Fellini, Indira Gandhi and Harry Houdini all died on Hallowe’en
4. Aahat
5. X – Common man, Y – Ben Kingsley
6. Sword Art Online
7. Kangaroo Court
8. League of Extraordinary gentleman
9. Spy-d-er, Spider
10.Another Earth
11.Hamshakals
12.Smelly Cat

•Posters in GoT style
•Identify the person who is being referred to in them
•+7 for every correct answer
•+14 for all correct
•Note safety slide for continuous parallel hint.
•CONSTANT VIGILANCE

*Darna nahi, safety slide hai.

Q1. X is a 2005 Indian Tamil Vigilante-psychological thriller. the plot
centers around a delusional common man who suffers from multiple
personality disorder and develops two other identities: a metrosexual
fashion model and a vigilante serial killer. Gimme the Tamil name of X....
Hindi name will give half points.

Q2. X is an English singer, songwriter and actor. he was a
member of the pop group “Take that” and had gained
commercial success as a solo artist as well. He has sold more than
75 million records worldwide, making him one of the bestselling
artists of all time. he also has a Guinness world record for selling
the highest amount of tickets for a music tour in a single day.

Q3. X is the Dark Phoenix companion of Kai Hiwatari. It is the Phoenix of
Darkness. Its first appearance was in Y when Kai sneaked into the abbey
to find out the secret behind Biovolt, where Boris offers the Y to Kai. It is
said to be his perfection and his weakness. It was was made by the
Rasputin who lived in the 19th century and was very close to Tzar's court
circle. Rasputin used the X for war efforts, but failed to control the power
from it several years ago. (think cartoons)

Q4. X is a weapon that appears in the 2012 film, Wrath of the Titans. It is
the only weapon that can kill Kronos. It was the combined forces of Zeus'
Thunderbolt, Poseidon's Trident and Hades' Pitchfork, all of which were
creations of Hephaestus.

Q5. X is a vocational code in the Systems Alliance military. It designates
special forces and refers to the highest level of proficiency. It applies to
Alliance personnel who have graduated from the Interplanetary
Combative Training (ICT) program. The X emblem is visible on all
customizable armor chest pieces wearable by Commander Shepard except
for the Kestrel Torso Sheath and the Rosenkov Materials chest piece.

Q6. In 1996, a mysterious up rise occurred in the number of suicides and
ill 7-12 year olds. The hypothesized cause of this rise is attributed to the
theme music of X which played at high frequencies in Y. ID X and Y (part
points)

X – Pokemon Red and Green
Y – Lavender Town

Baba Yetu – Civilisation 4 soundtrack, only ever game OST to win a Grammy for
Best song

Q8. X is a deodorant, originally sold by Mennen, then Colgate-Palmolive
(after Colgate-Palmolive acquired Mennen in 1992).The X line of
products steadily lost popularity after its peak in the early 1990s.
However, this peak was largely due to its inadvertently being featured in a
certain popular 1991 song.
Name the deo brand

Q9. Id this translated Hindi song

Channe ke khet mai, Poornima (Anjam 1994)

Q10. X means, “A brief description or review especially on the cover of a
book.” It was coined by Frank Burgess, a humorist and illustrator. The
original X was a Ms. Blinda X on a Burgess’ book covers and X first
referred to pictures of big women but, has since been redefined. What am
I talking about?

Q11.
• X was an American manufacturer of programmable logic
devices (PLDs), reconfigurable complex digital circuits. The company
released its first PLD in 1984. X main products are the Stratix , Arria and
Cyclone series FPGAs,the MAX series CPLDs, Quartus II design
software,and Enpirion PowerSoC DC-DC power solutions.
• X and Y announced on June 1, 2015 that they have agreed that Y would
acquire X in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $16.7
billion. As of December 28, 2015, the acquisition had been completed.
Dan McNamara of X is expected to run it as a new division of Y, the
Programmable Solutions Group, going forward.

Q12. X comes from Middle French, which comes directly from Latin Y. X
literally means ‘little mouse’, so called because, the shape and movement
of some X have thought to resemble mice and also due to medieval belief
that mice work in place of X. The analogy was also made in Greek where
“mys” is both mouse and X. Give X.

Q13. Complete the list
1._______
2._______
3._______
4. Oblivion
5. Skyrim

The Elder Scrolls
1. Arena
2. Daggerfell
3. Morrowind
4. Oblivion
5. Skyrim

Q14. The story of how X became Y began in 2005. Scansoft, a software
company was looking for a voice for a new project. It reached out to GM
Voices, a suburban Atlanta company that had established a niche
recording voices for automatic voice tech. X, a trusted talent who had
done lots of work with GM Voices, was one the option presented. Scansoft
liked what it heard and in June 2005, X signed a contract for the same.
What was the result, in other words give X and Y.

Q15. In 1987, Thomas Knoll, a Ph.D student of Michigan Uni., developed
a program to display greyscale images. The program was called the
display. It caught the attention of his brother and they both then made it a
full fledged program. They named it ‘ImagePro’ but, the name was
already taken so, they then named it to X. Give X.

Q16. _____ is an online video platform owned by a subsidiary of Amazon.
The site primarily focuses on video gaming, including playthroughs,
podcasts of e-sports and more recently art content. The content on this
website can either be viewed live or via VoD. It’s also famous for
introducing the Kappa emoji

LAMBA JODO!
+50
Give funda for the images in the thought bubbles in each safety slide

Magna Board drawings from Joey’s apartment in F.R.I.E.N.Ds

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