3. RULES
• 36 questions. All open to pounce/bounce.
• Pounce scoring is differential
+20 if 1 team gets it on pounce
+15 if 2-3 teams
+10 if 4-5 team
No points if all teams get it
Incorrect answer is -10 in all scenarios
• +10 for correct answer on bounce. No
negatives.
4. • 1. The Mattachine Society, an organisation formed in 1950 in USA, was one of the
first of its kind. One of its prominent founding members was Rudi Geirnich, a
Jewish American fashion designer whose clothing designs are generally regarded
as the most innovative and dynamic fashion of the 1960s, which included the
monokini.
• When the brainchild behind the group was asked about the choice of the name, he
had this to say:
“One masque group was known as the "Société Mattachine. These societies,
lifelong secret fraternities of unmarried townsmen who never performed in public
unmasked, were dedicated to going out into the countryside and conducting
dances and rituals during the Feast of Fools, at the Vernal Equinox. Sometimes
these dance rituals, or masques, were peasant protests against oppression. So we
took the name Mattachine because we felt that we 1950s ____ were also a
masked people, unknown and anonymous, who might become engaged in morale
building and helping ourselves and others, through struggle, to move toward total
redress and change.”
What was the Mattachine society all about?
10. • 3. Hansie: A True Story is a 2008 movie based
on the aftermath of the match fixing incident
for Hansie Cronje.
• Even though he would be easily missed if you
watched it then, the actor playing Allan
Donald would be instantly recognised by
followers of international cricket if they
watched the movie now. Just name the actor.
13. • 4. Hippasus was an ancient Greek ___________
philosopher. Not much is known about his life or teachings,
but he is often credited with the discovery of irrational
numbers (despite any definite evidence).
According to the myths, his discovery piqued and shocked
the ____________, because they believed till then that any
number could be written as the ratio of two integers.
• It is also claimed that Hippasus drowned at sea, apparently
as a punishment from the gods. Some more modern
extreme versions of the legend state that he made his
discovery while on a ship and the other ____________
threw him overboard.
• FITB
16. • 5. Bishop Aringarosa is one of the major characters in
Dan Brown’s bestselling thriller, “The Da Vinci Code”.
He is introduced in the first few chapters of the book,
and for a substantial part is portrayed in situations and
places that make the reader see him as the primary
antagonist and the person responsible for all the chaos.
At the end, however, the mastermind of the conspiracy
to unearth the Holy Grail is revealed to be Leigh
Teabing, and Aringarosa turns out to be innocent.
• The name of the character, however is, through a
clever play of words, the author’s hint/joke. How?
19. • 6. X is one of the most iconic food/beverage outlet in the
national capital. In 2011, it changed its name though, as it
turns out that it was not the “original” X.
• Edward X started his eponymous business in 1925, but sold
his business interests in Delhi to Ram Krishna Dalmia, who
set up numerous distribution outlets. In the 1970s, with the
government acquiring land for diplomatic enclaves in
Chanakyapuri, the brand dissolved.
However, the franchisee operating the now iconic outlet
retained the name.
• Now, Ram Krishna Dalmia’s grandson has tried to revive the
business by opening outlets in 4 locations under the name
X and forcing the legendary namesake to rechristen itself.
22. • 7. X was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally
considered one of the greatest painters
and printmakers in European art and the most
important in Dutch history. His etchings and paintings
were popular throughout his lifetime, his reputation as
an artist remained high, and for twenty years he taught
many important Dutch painters.
• His most distinctive contribution are the numerous self
portraits that he painted. He created nearly one
hundred self portraits that create a visual diary of the
artist over a span of 40 years. Some of these have been
shown on the next slide.
26. • 8. Tiruchi Siva is an MP in the Rajya Sabha
representing Tamil Nadu, belonging to DMK.
• On April 24, 2015, what did he get done on his
own that had not happened for 45 years?
28. He got a Private Member’s Bill passed in the
Rajya Sabha. (It was a bill on the rights of
transgenders)
29. • 9. One of the most important sociological books of the
20th century, ‘The X ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’
was written by Max Weber, a German sociologist,
economist and politician.
• In the book, Weber wrote that capitalism in Northern
Europe evolved when the
X(particularly _________) ethic influenced large
numbers of people to engage in work in the secular
world, developing their own enterprises and engaging
in trade and the accumulation of wealth for
investment. In other words, the X work ethic was an
important force behind the unplanned and
uncoordinated emergence of modern capitalism.
32. 10. This is a bust of X installed
in Jhamri village of Jhajjar,
Haryana, in August 2015.
X was one of Asia’s best players
of his time in a sport India has
never had any illustrious history
in.
He captained India in its first
appearance in the Asian
championship of the sport in
1965, and despite India’s 7th
place, he finished as one of the
highest scorers of the
tournament.
The coach of Phillipines, one of
the strongest Asian teams of
the time, had famously
remarked, “ Give us X and we
will conquer the world.”
Id X and the sport.
35. • 11. Phir Subah Hogi is a 1958 Hindi movie directed by Ramesh
Saigal and starring Raj Kapoor and Mala Sinha. With Khayyam as
music director and Sahir Ludhianvi as lyricist, the movie gave
Bollywood some memorable songs such as ‘Wo Subah Kabhi to
Ayegi’, ‘Aasman pe Hai Khuda aur Zameen pe Ham’, and ‘Chino-Arab
Hamara’.
• Not many know that this movie was based on a classic nineteenth
century European novel.
Incidentally, when the idea of adapting the novel for a film came up
in front of Alfred Hitchcock in an interview with Francois Tuffaut, he
said, “Well, I shall never do that, precisely because _____ ___
__________ is somebody else's achievement. There's been a lot of
talk about the way in which Hollywood directors distort literary
masterpieces. I'll have no part of that! ”
• Just name this classic.
41. • 13. xy Corp. established as Lak-Hui Chemical Industrial Corp. in 1947. In
1952, Lak-Hui (pronounced “X", currently xy Chem) became the first
Korean company to enter the plastics industry. As the company expanded
its plastic business, it established Y Co. Ltd. (currently xy Electronics Inc.)
in 1958. Both companies Xand Y merged and formed XY.
• Y produced South Korea's first radio. Many consumer electronics were
sold under the brand name Y, while some other household products (not
available outside South Korea) were sold under the brand name of X. The
X brand was famous for hygiene products such as soaps and HiTi laundry
detergents, but the brand was mostly associated with its X and
Perioe toothpaste. Even today, xy continues to manufacture some of these
products for the South Korean market, such as laundry detergent.
• In 1995, to compete better in the Western market, the XY Corporation was
renamed “xy". The company also associates the letters XY with the
company's tagline.
• (xy denotes the acronym and XY denotes the earlier complete names.
Give me XY)
44. • 14. In the 12th episode of the 3rd season of The Big Bang Theory, Dr
Sheldon Cooper says, “Sometimes, when I feel stifled and want a
change of scenery, I use my imagination. One of my favorite places
to visit is the two-dimensional world described in X’s mathematical
fantasy, Y . . . I am now a hexagon in two-dimensional space and can
only perceive the edges of other objects.”
• Y is a 19th century book describing a two dimensional world, where
females are simple line segments and men are polygons, with the
number of sides deciding social status and roles. Even though the
book was meant to be a satire on the strictly hierarchical Victorian
culture, its most enduring contribution is now believed to be its
treatment of dimensions. Even though published before Einstein’s
theory of relativity, the book’s narrator, a square, speculates about
worlds with more than 3 dimensions.
47. • 15. _________: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who
Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time is a
best-selling book by Dava Sobel about John Harrison,
published in 1997.
• In 2000, it was dramatised as a TV series titled
_________, with Michael Gambon playing the role of
John Harrison.
In 2001, _________ was nominated for the British
television academy awards in ten categories, winning
five, including Best Actor and Best Drama Serial.
• What was John Harrison’s achievement all about?
52. The announcement is for the death of Yogi
Berra, the baseball player. The news report
mentions Yogi Bear, a cartoon character
(whose name was allegedly inspired from
Berra’s).
The Jellystone National Park is the fictional
location of many of Yogi Bear’s adventures.
53. • 17. The modern usage of X refers to someone or something that is
often blamed for problems caused by other people.
• A X was a young boy who was assigned to a young prince and was
punished when the prince misbehaved or fell behind in his
schooling. X were established in the English court during the
monarchies of the 16th and 17th centuries.
• X were generally of high status, and were educated with the prince
from birth. Because the prince and X grew up together they usually
formed a strong emotional bond, especially since the prince usually
did not have playmates as other children would have had. The
strong bond that developed between a prince and his X
dramatically increased the effectiveness of using a X as a form of
punishment for a prince. The idea of the X was that seeing a friend
being beaten for something that he had done wrong would be likely
to ensure that the prince would not make the same mistake again.
56. • 18. On 28 August 1936, Celtic FC beat Galston 7-1.
Some excerpts from reports:
• “Ten twinkling toes of X, Celtic FC's player from India hypnotised the crowd at
Parkhead last night in an Alliance game with Galston. He balances the ball on his
big toe, lets it run down the scale to his little toe, twirls it, hops on one foot
around the defender, then flicks the ball to the center who has only to send it into
goal. Three of Celtic's seven goals last night came from his moves” – The Scottish
Daily Express
• “ In his bare feet he was a conspicuous figure but this was further emphasised by
his dark skin against the white and green of the Celtic strip. His play was top class.
Every ball he touched went exactly to the place he wanted it to. Not one inch was
it out. His crosses into goal were simply shrieking to be nodded into the net.” –
Glasgow Observer
• “…proved an expert in trapping and lobbing the ball towards goal. He fairly
hypnotised the opposing defenders, and seven goals were actually the outcome of
his moves.”- Alan Breck’s ‘Book of Scottish football’
• X was the first Indian player to play for a European side, and as these reports show,
he had a great impact.
59. 19. The X is a conceptual high-speed transportation
system originally put forward by entrepreneur Y
incorporating reduced-pressure tubes in which
pressurized capsules ride on an air cushion driven
by linear induction motors and air compressors.
In July 2012 at a PandoDaily event in Santa Monica,
California, he described several characteristics of what
he wanted in a hypothetical high-speed transportation
system: immunity to weather, cars that never
experience crashes, an average speed twice that of a
typical jet, low power requirements, and the ability to
store energy for 24-hour operations.
X technology has been explicitly open-sourced by Y
and ______, and others have been encouraged to take
the ideas and further develop them. To that end,
several companies have been formed, and dozens of
interdisciplinary student-led teams are working to
advance the technology.
Preliminary analysis reveals that the system might
touch top speeds of 1200 km/h.
62. • 20. Wilkins X is a fictional character from Charles Dickens's 1850
novel, David Copperfield. He was modelled on Dickens' father, John
Dickens, who like X was incarcerated in debtors' prison (the King's
Bench Prison) after failing to meet his creditors' demands.
• X is known for asserting his faith that "something will turn up". His
name has become synonymous with someone who lives in hopeful
expectation. This has formed the basis for the X Principle, based
upon his observation:
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen
pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty
pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result
misery." - (Chapter 12)
• The character of X has given rise to the English noun X and the
adjectives Xish and Xesque. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary
defines a X as "one who is poor but lives in optimistic expectation
of better fortune“
65. • 21. Lord Acton was an English catholic historian,
politician, and writer. Many of us might not have heard
of him, but all of us have definitely heard his most
famous quote, “_____ ________, ___ ________ _____
________ __________”, something which has almost
become an idiom now.
Although often quoted universally, we could say the
quote talks about a subject very relevant to India.
• In the letter in which this quote occurs, it is followed by
the phrase, “Great men are almost always bad men..”
68. • 22. Harry S Truman, the 33rd president of the United
States:
“"Although I hold the highest civil honour in the world,
I have always regarded my rank and title as a Past
Grand Master of ______ the greatest honor that had
ever come to me. I value it above all others because to
be a Grand Master of ______ one must be more than a
good public relations man—he must have a
background based upon the noblest of principles, and
he must bear the respect and esteem of the good men
who make up the Craft.“
FITB
71. • 23. One of the most recognisable sculptures of the world, originally named The
Poet (French: Le Poète), The X was initially a figure in a large commission, begun in
1880, for a doorway surround called The Gates of Hell. Y (creator) based this
on The Divine Comedy of Dante, and most of the many figures in the work
represented the main characters in the epic poem.
• Some critics believe The X, at the centre of the composition over the doorway and
at about 70 cm high larger than most other figures, was originally intended to
depict Dante at the gates of Hell, pondering his great poem. However, there are
questionable aspects to this interpretation, including that the figure is naked,
Dante is fully clothed throughout his poem, and that the figure, as used, in no way
corresponds to Dante's effete figure.
Another interpretation is that the X is Y himself meditating about his composition.
Others believe that the figure may be Adam, contemplating the destruction
brought upon mankind because of his sin.
• Y decided to treat the figure as an independent work, at a larger size.
There are now about 28 full size castings, in which the figure is about 186
centimetres (73 in) high, though not all were made during Y’s lifetime and under
his supervision. Now, the figure is often used to represent philosophy.
• Picture on next slide
78. • 25. ___ _______ ___ ________: The Mathematical
Breakthroughs That Changed History is an anthology,
edited by Stephen Hawking, of "excerpts from thirty-
one of the most important works in the history of
mathematics.“
The title of the book is a reference to a quotation
attributed to mathematician Leopold Kronecker, who
once wrote that “___ _______ ___ ________; all else is
the work of man.“
Kronecker was a 19th century German mathematician
who worked on number theory, algebra and logic.
81. • 26. X is a great American director who has always identified Satyajit Ray as
one of his biggest influences.
In his own words, “.. In sheer terms of content and cinematic excellence, I
rank Ray amongst the top ten directors of the last century….. The few
interactions I had with Ray are memories I treasure. Not only was he more
well-versed about world cinema than me, his knowledge about western
classical music and international literature is something I only noticed in
Sir David Lean and Akira Kurosawa”
• In recent years, he has also claimed that Ray was the influence behind E.T.
As he says, “In the late 60s, there was a big probability of Ray coming
down to Hollywood to shoot The Alien based on his own short story which
appeared in the then popular Bengali magazine, Sandesh. The film was to
be produced by 20th Century Fox and Hollywood was waiting to embrace
Ray with open arms. Alas! Due to some dirty politics played by unknown
quarters, Ray's Hollywood dream had to be shelved. I have no qualms in
admitting that Spielberg's E.T. was influenced by Ray's Alien. Even Sir
Richard Attenborough pointed this out to me.”
84. • 27. During a series of marquee basketball games on Christmas day
last year, an ad aired starring NBA players such as Stephen Curry,
Chris Paul, Carmelo Anthony and Joakim Noah.
• In a move with little precedent in professional sports, the N.B.A. is
putting the weight of its multibillion-dollar brand and the prestige
of its star athletes behind a series of television commercials calling
for an end to ___ ________.
• The ads were in collaboration by an organisation headed by former
New York Mayor Michael R Bloomberg, ‘Everytown for ___ ______’.
• Of course, this action by the NBA divided opinions, but the players
got a thumbs up from Barack Obama, who tweeted that he was
proud of the NBA for “taking a stand”.
• What were the ads all about?
86. Campaign to end gun violence
(Bloomberg’s organisation is ‘Everytown for
Gun Safety)
87. • 28. In one of the most iconic scenes of 1970s
Bollywood, Amitabh Bacchan stands inside an Easter
egg in the movie Amar Akbar Anthony, says something
confusing in English, and then breaks into the popular
song, “My name is Anthony Gonsalves”.
However, not many know that when Anthony is saying,
“sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated with the
exuberance of your own verbosity”, he is quoting
almost exactly from a British Prime Minister’s speech in
1878 attacking W E Gladstone.
• A two time Conservative Prime Minister, he was also
the first British Prime Minister of Jewish birth. Name
him.
90. • 29. X was a New Zealand off spinner who played only two tests and
has only one international wicket to his name. However, that one
wicket came in the way of something historic.
• In the first test match against Australia in Brisbane in November
1985, Y had run through the Australian innings claiming all of the
first 8 wickets to fall. He seemed set to become the only bowler
after Jim Laker to take all 10 wickets in an innings, as the no 10 and
11 batsmen were Dave Gilbert and Bob Holland, with batting
averages of 7 and 3 respectively.
• However, it was not to happen as X got his only test wicket by
having Z caught in the deep….. ironically by Y himself.
Y finished the innings with 9 wickets.
Id X, Y and Z
93. 30. X is a traditional French stewed
vegetable dish originating in Nice.
It is typically prepared as a stew with each
vegetable being sautéed separately before
being layered into a baking dish and baked.
X is usually served as a side dish, but may
also be served as a meal on its own
(accompanied by pasta, rice or
bread).Tomatoes are a key ingredient,
with garlic, onions, zucchini, eggplant, bell
peppers, marjoram, fennel and basil, or bay
leaf and thyme, or a mix of green herbs
like ’herbes de Provence’
You may not have eaten it, but many of you
may have heard of it in 2007.
96. • 31.‘Woh’ was an Indian horror show that aired on
Zee TV in 1998. It tells the story of Ashutosh and
his friends who at different stages of their life
have to battle an evil force called ‘Woh’ and rid
their town Panchgani of the menace.
The role of Ashutosh as a child was played by X
while Y portrayed the grown up Ashutosh.
• X is now a mainstream Bollywood actor who
made his Hindi film debut in 2005, and Y is an
acclaimed Hindi director.
99. • 32. The Marshall Islands is an island country located
near the equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of
the International Date Line. Geographically, the country
is part of the larger island group of Micronesia.
• On April 24, 2014, they got worldwide attention due to
a case they filed in the International Court of Justice
against nine nations, accusing them of not fulfilling
their obligations with regard to something. They also
filed a separate case against the United States in U.S
Federal District Court.
• What are these cases all about?
101. It was a case against all nuclear weapon
countries accusing them of not doing enough
for nuclear disarmament.
102. • 33. From the middle of the 19th century, X became a
popular destination for the sick and ailing because
the microclimate in the high valley was deemed excellent
by doctors and recommended for lung
disease patients. Robert Louis Stevenson, who suffered
from tuberculosis, wintered in X in 1880 upon the
recommendation of his Edinburgh physician Dr. George
Balfour. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote an article about skiing in
X in 1899. A sanatorium in X is also the inspiration for the
Berghof Sanitorium in Thomas Mann's famous novel Der
Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain)
• Now, however, we know X as the venue for an annual
event. What?
105. • 34. In a match in February 2016 against
Galatasaray, Trazbonspor player Salih Dursun was
sent off for showing a red card to the referee
himself.
The club is no stranger to run ins with referees, as
the chairman Ibrahim Ethem Haciosmanoglu was
banned for 280 days in November for doing
something (because he was unhappy at not being
awarded a penalty), that took Turkey’s president’s
intervention to be reversed. What did he do?
108. • 35. X was one of the most successful American jazz singers of all time, also termed
as ‘The First Lady of Song’. Despite her success, she also faced significant
discrimination because of her colour.
During the 50s, a popular nightclub in California was Mocambo, frequented by the
likes of Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin, Humphrey Bogart etc. However, X was not
allowed to perform there due to her race.
• Then, one of her biggest fans made a telephone call that quite possibly changed
the path of her career for good. Here, she tells the story of how Y changed her life:
“I owe Y a real debt … she personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told
him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a
front table every night. She told him – and it was true, due to Y’s superstar status –
that the press would go wild.
The owner said yes, and Y was there, front table, every night. The press went
overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an
unusual woman – a little ahead of her times. And she didn’t know it.“
• This incident was also dramatised in a play termed ‘X and Y’ in 2008.
112. • 36. Mosima Gabriel "Tokyo" Sexwale is a South African
businessman, politician, anti-apartheid activist, and
former political prisoner. A charismatic leader, Sexwale was
imprisoned on Robben Island for his anti-apartheid
activities, alongside figures such as Nelson Mandela. After
the 1994 general election—the first fully democratic
election in South Africa—Sexwale became
the Premier of Gauteng Province. He served in the
government of South Africa as Minister of Human
Settlements from 2009 to 2013. More recently, he was in
news for being a presidential candidate in the FIFA election.
• Apart from all this, he also has a (somewhat lateral)
connect to Donald Trump. What?
113. He hosted the South African version of ‘The
Apprentice’
