The document provides rules for a 20 question quiz including points awarded for correct answers and the quizmaster's final decision. It then lists 15 multiple choice questions about films, books, people, places and their connections along with the correct answers. The questions cover topics like the Terracotta Army, Martin Guptill, Joseph Pulitzer, Agatha Christie's disappearance and more.

2. Rules
• There are 20 questions in all.
• +10 on bounce and +15/-10 on pounce.
• The Quizmaster’s decision is final. In case you
guys care about any of that.

3. 1.
• The Terracotta Army is a collection
of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies
of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is
a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in
210–209 BCE and whose purpose was to protect
the emperor in his afterlife. The figures include
warriors, chariots and horses. These are currently
kept in a museum in Shaanxi province.
• These sculptures were made popular in India by a
series of hilarious tweets and memes. What was
the reason behind this popularity?

6. 2.
• A ‘X’ is a nation considered to be an outcast in the
international community. Often confused for a
term with a somewhat similar meaning, i.e.
“rogue nation”, X may face international isolation,
sanctions or even an invasion by nations who find
its policies, or its actions unacceptable. The term
was first used in English in 1613 and traces back
its origin from a large indigenous tribal group
from Tamil Nadu. Under the outdated caste
system they were members of the lower caste
and were called “outcastes” by the rulers of
British Raj. Give X.

8. X- Pariah State derived from Paraiyar
tribe

9. 3.
• Bad Hat Harry is an American film and television
production company founded in 1994. The name
comes from a dialogue of a 1970’s movie. The scene
containing the dialogue is depicted in the original
logo of the production house.

10. • While the new logo refers to a popular scene
from a 1995 movie Y that was directed by the
founder of the company. Give both films.

12. Jaws and The Usual Suspects

13. 4.
• These are the second and third parts of a book
trilogy. What was the name of the first book?

16. 5.
• Cast of which upcoming spin-off film trilogy?
Colin Farrell Graves
Eddie Redmayne Newt Scamander
Ezra Miller Credence
Samantha Morton Mary Lou
Katherine Waterston Porpentina

18. Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find
Them

19. 6.
• X made his One Day International debut for New
Zealand on 10 January 2009 against the West
Indies in Auckland, becoming the first New Zealander
to score a century on his one-day debut. His score of
122 not out is the highest debut score in New Zealand
ODI history, and second highest debut score ever in
ODIs.
• At the age 13, X was involved in a forklift accident and
lost three toes. This fact was revealed to the world by
provincial teammate Scott Styris whilst Styris was
commentating on X's ODI debut. This has since earned
X the nickname "Two Toes."

21. Martin Guptill

22. 7. Give X and Y
• “Southern Man” and “Alabama” are songs by Neil
Young. The lyrics of the songs are vivid, describing
the racism towards blacks in the Southern America. X is
another song by Southern Rock band Y, which was
written as a reply to these two songs. According to the
band members Young was exaggerating the racism
issue and the vocalist qouted, “We thought Neil was
shooting all the ducks in order to kill one or two.” On
the other hand Young took it sportingly and has even
played the song in his concerts.
• X is one of the most overused songs in movies,
appearing on the soundtracks of Forrest Gump, Con
Air, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Despicable Me, etc.

24. X- Sweet Home Alabama
Y- Lynyrd Skynyrd

25. 8.
• X was a Hungarian-born American
newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and
the New York World. X introduced the techniques of
"new journalism" to the newspapers he acquired in
the 1880s. He became a leading national figure in
the Democratic Party and was elected Congressman
from New York. He crusaded against big business and
corruption, and helped keep the Statue of Liberty in
New York.
• Today, he is best known for something, which was
established in 1917 by money he bequeathed
to Columbia University.

27. Joseph Pulitzer, Pulitzer Prize

28. 9.
What is being talked about?
• Because the light occurs too fast for the pupil to close,
much of the very bright light from the flash passes into
the eye through the pupil, reflects off the fundus at the
back of the eyeball and out through the pupil. The
camera records this reflected light. The main cause of
the ______ is the ample amount of blood in the
choroid which nourishes the back of the eye and is
located behind the retina. The blood in the retinal
circulation is far less than in the choroid, and plays
virtually no role. The eye contains several photostable
pigments that all absorb in the short wavelength
region, and hence contribute somewhat to the ____.

30. The Red Eye Effect

31. 10.
• Given below is a synopsis of a 1979 film based on a
true event.
• When her husband Archie (Timothy Dalton) confronts
her with his affair and demands a divorce,
writer _________ (Vanessa Redgrave) tells him that she
fears for her life and promptly vanishes. She signs into
a Harrogate hotel under the name of a relative of
Archie’s lover and, as the country flies into a frenzy of
rumour regarding her disappearance, secretly plans a
dark revenge against him that can only be averted by
Wally Stanton (Dustin Hoffman), an
ambitious American journalist who falls in love with
her.
• What true event?

33. Agatha
Based on Agatha Christie’s
disappearance in 1926

34. 11.
Give X
• The X is a legendary monster of large proportions. Given below is an
irregular sonnet by Alfred Tennyson titled The X.
• Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
_________ sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumber'd and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
• Quite interestingly this monster is also depicted on the sigil of one of the
houses on HBO’s medeival fantasy drama Game of Thrones.

36. The Kraken

37. 12.
• X is a photograph by Hungarian war photographer Y,
taken during the Spanish civil war in 1936. X depicts
the death of a Republican soldier, who is seen
collapsing backward after being fatally shot in the
head, with his rifle slipping out of his hand. The
pictured soldier is dressed in civilian clothing but is
wearing a leather cartridge belt.
• X was acclaimed as one of the best photographs ever
taken but since the 1970s there have been significant
doubts about its authenticity, due to its location, the
identity of its subject, and the discovery of staged
photographs taken at the same time and place.

39. The Falling Soldier by Robert Capa

40. 13.
X and Y?
• X were a were an English beat group prominent during
the 1960s. In common with the Beatles, they came
from Liverpool, were managed by Brian Epstein, and
were recorded by George Martin. They rivaled the
Beatles in their early years touring in the same areas of
Hamburg and Liverpool.
• They are most remembered for their cover of Y, which
was a show tune from a Roger and Hammerstein
Broadway musical called Carousel. The single peaked at
number one on the charts for four consecutive weeks
and became immensely popular among the fans of a
particular team.

42. X-Gerry and The Pacemakers
Y-You’ll Never Walk Alone

43. 14.
• X is a saline soda lake located in Buldhana
district, Maharashtra, which was created by
a meteor impact during the Pleistocene
Epoch and it is the largest impact crater in India.
This lake, which lies in a basalt impact structure,
is both saline and alkaline in nature.
• X is also an archaeological goldmine with more
than 20 temples dating back to the 11th century
dotting its crater. Located near the popular Ajanta
and Ellora caves, the crater has the potential to
be another tourist attraction and generate
massive revenue.

45. X- Lonar Lake

46. 15.
• X is a phrase that means disobeying and doing
something you believe is right even though it isn't
legal. X was the title of a 1982 song by British
punk rock band The Clash. The song gives
a fictional account of a ban on rock music by the
king being defied by the population, who proceed
to do “X.” The King orders jetfighters to bomb any
people in violation of the ban. The lyrics of the
song were inspired by the ban on Western music
in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
• X is also the name of an upcoming movie starring
Bill Murray, Bruce Willis and Zooey Deschanel.

48. Rock the Casbah/Kasbah

49. 16.
List of what?
• Akhilesh Yadav/ Mulayam Singh Yadav- Noida
• H D Deve Gowda/ S M Krishna- Chamarajnagar
• Kiran Reddy/ YSR Reddy- Guntakal, A.P.
• Jayalalitha/ Karunanidhi- A part of Thanjavur
Brihadeeswara Temple

51. • Politicians do not visit these places, for there
is a superstition that people lose their
seats/posts if they go there.

52. 17.
• One of the best known creatures in Greek mythology,
he is a winged divine stallion usually depicted as pure
white in color. He was sired by Poseidon, in his role as
horse-god, and foaled by the Medusa. Symbol of
wisdom and especially of fame from the Middle Ages
until the Renaissance, he became symbol of the poetry
and the creator of sources in which the poets come to
draw inspiration, particularly in the 19th century.
• X is a multinational electronics company based in
Taipei which derives its name from him. Name X.

54. ASUS from Pegasus

55. 18.
• A long standing rumour about William Moulton
Marston is that he was the inventor of the polygraph
test, which (purportedly) detects whether people are
lying. Marston WAS, however, an early innovator in the
field of lie detection, and his contributions to the
polygraph test should not be overlooked. Marston gave
the idea that, by testing a subject’s systolic blood
pressure, one would be able to determine whether the
subject was lying, was the basis of the polygraph
machine.
• William Moulton Marston is however, remembered for
his contribution to the world of superhero comics.
What contribution?

57. Creator of Wonder Woman. Her Golden Lasso
of Truth which forces anyone to speak the truth
is partly inspired by the polygraph

58. 19. Connect

60. Mission Impossible Series
• Centrepieces of all the parts of MI series -
(starting from the first) Prague (Prague
Embassy Mission), Chimera (Chimera virus and
its antidote bellerophon derived from Greek
mythology), rabbit's foot ( a dangerous
device), Kremlin (kremlin bombing in Ghost
Protocol) and Syndicate (the criminal
organization in the latest part)

61. 20. Give X.
• X is a sonnet by English romantic writer Percy Bysshe
Shelly. X was a Greek name for
the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II. Shelley began
writing his poem in 1817, soon after the
announcement of the British Museum's acquisition of a
large fragment of a statue of Ramesses II from the
thirteenth century BC, and some scholars believe that
Shelley was inspired by this. The poem explore the fate
of history and the ravages of time—that all prominent
figures and the empires they build are impermanent
and their legacies fated to decay and oblivion.
• Something in the world of television in 2013 was
inspired by this poem’s theme of greatness and
collapse.

63. Ozymandias