2. Rules:
● Infinite Pounce and Bounce
● +15/-10 on Pounce
● +10 on Bounce
● Please don’t fight the QM
3. 1.
X is an American superhero drama series, first shown on NBC during the 2010-
2011 television season. The series, set in fictional Palm City, California, follows
Vince Faraday, an honest detective who decides to leave the police force after he
witnesses the murder of a new police chief by a mysterious villain known as
Chess. Even though it was cancelled after only 9 episodes, the series gained pop
culture fame after one of the main characters of another(much more successful)
TV show Y pretended to be Vince Faraday. This scene was also the first instance
of a popular phrase Z which has gone on to become the standard for “success” of
a TV show.
Give me X,Y,Z on the pounce. Part points will be awarded.
9. 3.
X is the country code top-level domain for the crown dependency of Guernsey,
including the islands of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou and Lihou. This
domain is especially popular with video game and eSports websites. One of the
most famous of these websites is Y, a VoIP application most used by online
gamers.
What is X and name the company Y for bonus points(+5).
12. 4.
Sweetheart, the strings of instrument play
Listen to what the heart says
Come and love me, Sweetheart
The world is full of colors
Its neither good nor bad
Listen to what the instrument says
X's beloved
Sweetheart, come smile with me sometimes
Tell me what's in your heart
Otherwise, its over between you and me
This is the english translation of a very famous Indian song. Name the song.
13.
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15. 5.
Celestis, Inc. was founded in 1994 by Charles M. Chafer and R. Chan Tysor and
is currently headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company provides specialized
services and its list of customers include Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and
Mareta West, the first female astrogeologist.
Simply tell me what service does Celestis provide.
18. 6.
________ syndrome is an extremely rare intestinal condition in humans resulting
from ingesting hair (trichophagia). The characteristics of the syndrome include a
body of a trichobezoar (hairball) located in the stomach, and its tail (hence the
reference to ________ in the syndrome's name) in the small bowel and/or in the
right colon.
FITB with the name of the protagonist of a 2010 Academy Award nominated
movie.
21. 7.
In 1886, then President, Grover Cleveland ordered that the structure will serve as
a lighthouse. After several failed attempts using the then-new electrical
technology, the electric arc lights were eventually lit and were able to be seen
from a distance of 24 miles away. The structure functioned as a lighthouse for the
next 16 years, until March 1, 1902.
Name the structure and its counterpart on the other side of the country which was
proposed by Dr. Viktor E. Frankl, a holocaust survivor and the author of the
bestselling book, Man's Search for Meaning.
25. 8.
In 1856, during his tenure as the Surveyor General Of India, Andrew Scott Waugh
broke the tradition of giving the geographical features their local names and
proposed a name to honour his predecessor. Even though local names like
“Deodungha” and "Chomolungma" existed Waugh argued that there were too
many local names and it was impossible for him to identify the name that was
used most commonly.
What was the eventual name given?
28. 9.
After a few years of unrest in the late 1960s, this organization, one of the oldest of
its kind split into two factions, known as 'The Organisation' and 'The
Requisitionists'. The split was caused by the expulsion of the leader of ‘The
Requisitionists’ from the organization. The newly formed faction of the
Requisitionists were also informally referred as X. X is also the name of the
mysterious international terrorist consortium in the latest Mission Impossible
movie.
ID the organization and X.
31. 10.
The French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" first appeared in Jean-Jacques
Rousseau's Confessions, his autobiography which was published in 1782. This
phrase has been attributed to a “great princess”.
Who is the “great princess” that this quote has been misattributed to and what is
its english translation?
34. 11.
The ____ ______ effect, named after the British entertainer refers to the influence
his comedic commentary has been credited to have over the various Government
legislations, regulations, court rulings and other aspects of the nation’s culture.
One such example was when in 2014, on his episode on net neutrality he
encouraged his viewers to submit public comments through the FCC website
causing the website to crash as 3.7 million people posted their comments on the
website.
FITB
37. 12.
Zero Wing is a 1989 side-scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game developed by
Toaplan and published by Taito. It enjoyed a degree of success in arcades and
was subsequently ported to the Mega Drive by Toaplan in 1991, in Japan, and by
Sega during the following year in Europe.
In 1999, Zero Wing's introduction was re-discovered, culminating in a wildly
popular internet meme.
Elon Musk rephrased it in June 2014 to mark the release of all Tesla patents for
royalty-free use.
Give me the original phrase and Musk’s version.
40. 13.
During the period known as “The troubles”, nationalists and unionists fought over
the control of Northern Ireland. During the conflict, members of The Provisional
Irish Republican Army were arrested and held in the Maze prison in Northern
Ireland. The prisoners were classified as Special Category Status and hence were
treated like prisoners of war. However in 1976, the British Government began the
process of phasing out the Status as part of the policy of "criminalisation". This
meant that the prisoners would now be required to wear prison uniforms like
ordinary convicts. The prisoners declared that they would not be treated as
ordinary convicts and protested in a unique way. This protest came to be known
as the _______ Protest.
FITB or tell me how the prisoners protested.
43. 14.
The first case of this phenomenon was reported in 1969 in the shipping
department of Japan’s largest newspaper company. In 1987, as public concern
increased, the Japanese Ministry of Labour began to publish statistics on this.
This phenomenon is also widespread in South Korea, where it is referred as
gwarosa and in China, where it is called guolaosi.
What phenomenon is this, which also led to life insurance companies in Japan
putting one-year exemption clauses in their contracts?
