This document provides the details of a quiz being conducted, including disclaimers, rules, and the beginning of sample questions and answers. It states there will be 25 questions total with questions 16-25 used to resolve ties. 6 teams will advance to the next round. The first question provides context about a 2001 song by a band and asks for the name of the song. Overall this summary outlines the structure and start of a general knowledge quiz.

2. PRELIMS

3. DISCLAIMER
• No questions on this quiz have been lifted
from anywhere. Any similarity to questions in
any other quiz is purely coincidental.
I don’t attend enough quizzes to know which
question came where, so please forgive any
oversights.
Cheers!

4. RULES
• 25 questions. No. 16-25 will be used to resolve
ties
• 6 teams go forward to the next round.
• All other standard rules apply.

5. 0. X is a 2001 song by Y, one of their most
recognisable and famous songs.
The video shows the band squaring off against
bad Y and has clips from a famous 2001
movie.
Just give me the song.

6. ANSWER
Welcome to ‘Elevation’!

7. • 1. The term XY was coined in the mid-1890s to
characterize the sensational journalism that used some
X ___in the circulation war between Joseph
Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph
Hearst's New York Journal. The battle peaked from
1895 to about 1898, and historical usage often refers
specifically to this period. Both papers were accused by
critics of sensationalizing the news in order to drive up
circulation, although the newspapers did serious
reporting as well. An English magazine in 1898 noted,
"All American Y is not ‘X’, though all strictly ‘up-to-
date’ XY is American!“

8. ANSWER
Yellow Pages

9. 2. This man played cricket
for Pakistan very briefly in
the 1980s, appearing in
just 6 tests and 8 odis.
However, something that
he did in a match against
Australia in 1982 ensures
his place in cricket history
(and in quizzes).
Id the man and his
achievement.

10. ANSWER
Jalal-Ud-Din : First bowler to take a hattrick in an ODI

11. • 3. Ygate refers to an uncorroborated anecdote that during his university
years _______ Prime Minister X put a "private part of his anatomy" into a
dead Y’s mouth as part of an initiation ceremony for the Piers Gaveston
Society(an all men dining club at Oxford). The anecdote was reported
by Michael Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott in their unauthorised biography
of X, Call Me ____, attributing the story to an anonymous Member of
Parliament who was a "distinguished Oxford contemporary" of X’s
. Extracts from the book were published in the Daily Mail on 20 September
2015, prior to its publication.
• Despite a categorical denial by X and his office, and a absence of any sort
of proof, this became the butt of countless jokes on social media, funniest
of them doubtlessly coming from a twitter account titled “X’s Y”.
(Examples on next slide!)
• Some social media users quickly made connections to the Charlie
Brooker TV series Black Mirror which featured an episode wherein a
fictional Prime Minister has sex with a Y under duress. Brooker quickly
denied any connection or prior knowledge of the allegations.

13. ANSWER

14. • 4. X ( 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major
English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the
finest lyric, as well as epic, poets in the English language. A radical
in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, X did not see
fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew steadily
following his death. X was a key member of a close circle of
visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron; Leigh
Hunt; Thomas Love Peacock.
• In terms of religious views, he remained an atheist, and was in fact
suspended from Oxford University in 1811 for authoring a pamphlet
titled “The Necessity of Atheism”.
• He came into news again last year when it was announced that the
Bodleian library of Oxford had acquired a long anti-war poem
written by him in his Oxford days, which was believed lost to fire
until 2006, when one copy was rediscovered.

15. ANSWER
Percy Bysshe Shelley

16. • 5. This is from the website of the organisation that awards the X
prize every year:
“The X Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, and
then THINK. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual,
honor the imaginative — and spur people's interest in science,
medicine, and technology.”
• The awards are sometimes veiled criticism (or gentle satire), but are
also used to point out that even the most absurd-sounding avenues
of research can yield useful knowledge. Organized by the scientific
humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), they are
presented by a group that includes Nobel laureates at a ceremony
at Harvard University's Sanders Theater, and they are followed by a
set of public lectures by the winners at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
• Next slide: Things that won the 2015 prizes

17. • Inventing a chemical recipe to partially unboil an
egg
• Testing the biological principle that nearly all
mammals empty their bladders in about 21
seconds (plus or minus 13 seconds)
• Discovering that the word "huh?" (or its
equivalent) seems to exist in every human
language — and for not being quite sure why.
• Experiments to study the biomedical benefits or
biomedical consequences of intense kissing (and
other intimate, interpersonal activities)

18. ANSWER
IG Nobel Prizes

19. • 6. X was an Indian avant-garde director from Kerala, and was the
namesake of a popular current Hindi actor.
• Even though he could make only four movies, he attained a legendary
status and is recognised as a genius in Malayali cinema. His film Amma
Ariyan was the only south Indian feature film to make the list of “Top 10
Indian films” by the British Film Institute (2002).
• He made his mark with the Tamil film Agraharathil Kazhuthai(which won a
National Award), but is possibly remembered most for his efforts in
starting a people's cinema movement, an absolute form of independent
filmmaking called Odessa Collective. Odessa was an attempt by a group of
movie enthusiasts to change the history of film production and
distribution by making it a collaborative effort with the public and thus act
as an empowering and liberating medium.For the financing of the first film
produced by Odessa, X and his friends travelled through villages and
collected money from the general public.

20. ANSWER
John Abraham

21. • 7. A well known 19th century German philosopher X had this to say about
the Upanishads in his most famous book:
“How entirely does the Upanishads breathe throughout the holy spirit of
the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin
has become familiar with that incomparable book, stirred by that spirit to
the very depth of his soul! How does every line display its firm, definite,
and throughout harmonious meaning! From every sentence deep,
original, and sublime thoughts arise, and the whole is pervaded by a high
and holy and earnest spirit. Indian air surrounds us, and original thoughts
of kindred spirits. And oh, how thoroughly is the mind here washed clean
of all early en grafted Jewish superstitions, and of all philosophy that
cringes before those superstitions! In the whole world there is no study,
except that of the originals, so beneficial and so elevating as that of the
Oupnekhat. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my
death!”
• The influence of the Upanishads on his philosophy is well known.
• He is often referred to as the “philosopher of pessimism”.

22. ANSWER
Arthur Schopenhauer

23. • 8. X is one of the most successful contemporary
players of his sport.
He is also a devout Christian, and has often
courted controversy because of his open stand
against LGBT activism and same sex marriage.
• The most recent instance is from last month
when he compared homosexuals to animals; this
led Nike to sever ties with him calling his remarks
abhorrent. Even though he initially apologised, he
later posted a Bible verse advocating death for
gays on his Instagram account.

24. ANSWER
Manny Pacqaio

25. • 9. Last month an advertisement came up near a
bus stop in Moscow that showed ______ _____
smoking a cigarette with the caption “Smoking
kills more people than _____, although he kills a
lot of people. Don't smoke! Don't be like _____!”
• First highlighted by an opposition politician, some
people thought this was part of an anti smoking
campaign, and thus criticised the government.
Later, however, it turned out that this was the job
of some unknown prankster. Just FITB.

26. ANSWER
Barack Obama

27. • 10. La Disparation is a 300 page novel written by
Georges Perec in 1969, later translated into
English by Gilbert Adair with the title ‘A Void’.
• A Void's plot follows a group of humans looking
for a missing companion, Anton Vowl. It is in part
a parody of noir and horror fiction, with many
stylistic tricks, gags, plot twists, and a grim
conclusion.
• Its uniqueness, however, lies elsewhere. What
makes both the novels unique?

28. ANSWER
Doesn’t have the letter ‘e’.

29. • 11. The X Boys (c. 1970s) were a group of Chilean economists, the majority of
whom trained at the Department of Economics of the University of X under Milton
Friedman and Arnold Harberger, or at its affiliate in the economics department at
the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Upon their return to Latin America they
adopted positions in numerous right-wing South American governments as
economic advisors, many of them reaching high positions.
• The term X Boys has been used at least as early as the 1980s to describe Latin
American economists who studied or identified with the libertarian economic
theories then taught at the University of X, even though some of them earned
degrees at Harvard or MIT (see below). X boys generally advocated widespread
deregulation, privatization, and other free market policies for closely controlled
economies. They rose to fame as leaders of the early reforms initiated in Chile
during the rule of General Augusto Pinochet.
• Even though some credit them with transforming Chile into one of Latin America’s
best performing economies, there is also widespread criticism, and some have also
claimed that their policies were aimed at helping American corporations at the
expense of the Chilean public.

30. ANSWER
Chicago Boys

31. 12. Whose filmography?

32. ANSWER
Hedy Lamarr

33. • 13. Raseedi Ticket is the autobiography of X, one
of the most well known female poets and authors
of India, and a Padma Vibhushan awardee.
• The title of the book is derived from the remark
that Y, himself a highly accomplished author,
made claiming that the story of her life was so
inconsequential and tiny that it could be written
at the back of a revenue stamp (Raseedi ticket).
Give both X and Y

34. ANSWER
X – Amrita Pritam
Y – Khushwant Singh

35. 14. Ruby Myers was an Indian silent film
star of Jewish ancestry, hailing from the
community of Baghdadi Jews in India.
In her heyday, she was one of the highest
paid actresses of the time.
She was also conferred with the
Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1973.
With the coming of sound, she found a lull
in her career, as now performers were
expected to be proficient in Hindustani.
However, she learnt the language and
returned with a bang, starring in talkie
versions of her successful silent films.
Just tell me by what name would have
fans of Bollywood known her at that
time?

36. ANSWER
Sulochana

37. 15. Connect:

38. ANSWER
Sultans of Swing

39. • 16. Dree Louise Hemingway Crisman is an
American model and also the great
granddaughter of the poet Ernest Hemingway.
• Recently, she has become the centre of a
break from a 63 year old legacy. What am I
talking about?

40. ANSWER
She is on the centerfold of Playboy’s first no nudity edition

41. • 17. Today, most tennis matches in India are played on synthetic
hardcourts, but around 30-40 years ago, Indian tennis was played on a
very distinctive(and quite exclusive to India) surface.
• As an Indian Express report on those past years says, “___ ____ courts
were indeed a peculiar Indian invention with no known beginnings and
scarce parallels in tennis’ backyards of Europe and America, as well as a
source of constant horror to anyone who heard of them the first time. But
talk to old-timers and Indian players (even from the metros) right upto
those who roamed the Indian circuit well into the late 90s and ask them
about that part of their past, and you’d be surprised at how fondly the
____ courts get spoken of.
“I won the India Open on ___ courts in 1977 in Mumbai,” Vijay Amritraj
recalls, boasting that it was his fourth on the surface since 1973. “I didn’t
think it was crazy, but foreigners definitely did when they heard of it”
• What was this surface?

42. ANSWER
Cow dung

43. 18. Id the flag

44. ANSWER
Jammu & Kashmir

45. • 19. Excerpt from an Indian Express story during the 2015 World Cup:
• “…..the towering Irish new-ball bowler with a thick beard explains: “Our academy
is sponsored by _________ ________. There is this guy called Mr ______, and he
lives in Ireland and I think it came about through that and he wants to help
develop cricket within Ireland.
Ireland media manager Barry Chambers gives more details about the 10-year
sponsorship deal that he says is “a multi-million Euro boost” to the game in his
country. “In addition to holding the naming rights to the Cricket Ireland Academy,
_________ ________ will also become an official partner to Cricket Ireland,” he
adds. “
• The person being talked about above is a prominent Indo-Irish businessman, who
renounced Indian citizenship in 2003 and is now a permanent Irish citizen.
According to Forbes, his wealth is estimated to be US$16.3 billion as of November
2015. With his 18.4% stake in Tata Sons, he is the single largest shareholder in
India's largest private conglomerate Tata Group. Id.

46. ANSWER
Shapoorji Pallonji Mistry

47. • 20. The word X in former times meant zero and
was also derived from the Arabic word for the
same. It later also connoted any decimal digit, or
even any number, but now is widely used to
mean “encoding”. A theory why this would have
happened is the following:
• There was no concept of zero in the Roman
numeral system. The concept was thus so
confusing and ambiguous to medieval Europeans,
that X itself came to mean concealment of clear
messages.

48. ANSWER
Cipher (sifr means zero in arabic)

49. 21. The XY illusion is an optical
illusion devised by Franz Carl
XY , a German sociologist, in
1889.
The most common form in
which it is seen today consists
of a set of arrow-like figures.
Straight line segments of equal
length comprise the "shafts" of
the arrows, while shorter line
segments (called the fins)
protrude from the ends of the
shaft. The fins can point
inwards to form an arrow
"head" or outwards to form an
arrow "tail". The line segment
forming the shaft of the arrow
with two tails is perceived to be
longer than that forming the
shaft of the arrow with two
heads.

50. ANSWER
Muller Lyer Illusion

51. • 22. Nikhil Advani is a director famous for films like
Kal Ho Na Ho and Salaam-e-Ishq, among others.
• If recent news reports are to be believed, Star
Plus has signed him to adapt an Israeli TV series
Hatufim for the Indian audience.
Those of us who follow American television may
know Hafutim because it was adapted into a
hugely popular American TV series X which
premiered in 2011. Give X.

52. ANSWER
Homeland

53. 23. Connect
• Liverpool FC
• Feyenoord FC
• FC Twente
• Club Brugge
• Borussia Dortmund
• Hoffenheim
• Mainz 05
• Borussia Moengladbach
• Celtic FC
• FC Tokyo
(Inexhaustive list, but most well known entries are present)

54. ANSWER
You’ll never walk alone

55. • 24. Urgenda is a Dutch environmental NGO. In
June 2015, they got worldwide media
attention for an unprecedented success.
What?

56. ANSWER
The NGO sued the Dutch government for not doing enough for
the environment. They got a ruling in their favour and the
court ordered the government to be more stringent in its
policy towards carbon emissions and other related things.

57. 25. This is a painting by JMW Turner of
X, located in Switzerland.
The town and X are known worldwide
as the setting for a literary fictional
event.
For those of you who don’t read a lot,
the name may be familiar due to a
recent entertainment/pop culture
connect.

58. ANSWER
Reichenbach Falls
This is the location where Sherlock Holmes wrestled Moriarty( in
the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle) and they both plumetted
down a cliff.
The Reichenbach Fall was also the name of the 3rd episode of the
2nd season of the BBC series ‘Sherlock’ starring Benedict
Cumberbatch. This is also the painting that Sherlock helps
recover in the beginning of the episode .