If its Tuesday its Cluesday! Edition 245 At Vapour Indiranagar! By Lalitha Priyadharshini

1. If it’s Tuesday, it’s
Edition #245 | 13.11.2018 | Lalitha

2. The Rules
• 4 participants per table.
• Cluesday is a fun quiz so please no going online for answers.
• If you win Cluesday, your team’s ‘booze’ bill is on the house!
(unless you are more than 4 per table!)
• Answers need to come in before the quizmaster’s countdown.
• The quizmaster’s decision is FINAL and ABSOLUTE.
If it’s Tues day, it’s
@vapourblr www.facebook.com/groups/cluesday /

3. Rd1:Around the world
Rd2:Wordfinder
Rd3: The idiot box
Rd4: Dr.Pun-dit!
Rd5: Hit Stand or Burst
*The Joker can be played on any of the rounds. The quizmaster needs to be informed
about the joker before the start of the round.
Rd6: Finale
5 Q
5 Q
5 Q
5 Q
±1/0 x 5
3 + 2 + X
#245

4. Rd1:Around the world – Answers are all names of places
Rd2:Wordfinder-Find the word or phrase that fits the clues
Rd3: The idiot box- The digital world and the television
Rd4: Dr.Pun-dit! – Puns and portmanteau
Rd5: Hit Stand or Burst- Happy Diwali Everyone!
*The Joker can be played on any of the rounds. The quizmaster needs to be informed
about the joker before the start of the round.
*Points for each question mentioned on the top right hand side
Rd6: Finale
#245

5. Around the
world
Round 1

6. Q1
X, in the 19th century seemed destined for the junkyard,
but a city councilor convinced his colleagues that it might
be possible to sell it in the United States.
In the early 1960s, X was under auction.
X was bought in 1968, by an American tycoon,
Missourian entrepreneur Robert McCulloch—all 10,000
tons of it—and moved it to the desert town of Lake
Havasu City, Arizona
The final price of $2,460,000 was agreed upon and he
became the proud owner of the world’s largest antique.
What is X?
1 Point

7. Q2
The US dropped practice bombs called X Bombs, on 14 targets in Japan that
killed 400 people and injured 1200 before dropping the atomic bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The name comes from a Greek word Pepon.
The word in itself can be associated with pies and stews.
X Bombs was developed as a part of the Y project.
Name X and Y
0.5 +0.5 Points

8. Q3
_________, is Literally translated as Ponte di Sospiri in Italian
This became famous in part due to Lord Byron who referenced it in his 1812
book Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and translated the name into English :
“I stood here on ________ ; a palace and a prison on each hand.”
As the convicts were being led through ________ from the Court of Justice
to the cold, damp and dark jails, the view from the here was the last view of
the outside world they saw before their imprisonment. The name indicates
the last breath of the prisoners in the free world because, once convicted in
the kingdom of Dogi they never could go back. There is also a legend that if a
couple who visit ________ will have their love will last forever.
1 Point

9. Q4
A non fiction book released in 2005
This proves the laws of physics also apply to storytelling. From powerful
events come transformative stories.
Some excerpts
One day I walk into the hallway and tell the nurse, ‘he’s dying’. The nurse
says ‘what did you expect? He’s got 1600 Roentgen. Four hundred is a lethal
dose. He’s a nuclear reactor’.
What’s the book?
Name the City and Country associated with this?
1 Point

10. Q5
Guess the (City, Country) from its manhole covers
A B C D
0.5 X 4 =2 Points

12. Answers

13. Q1
X, in the 19th century seemed destined for the junkyard,
but a city councilor convinced his colleagues that it might
be possible to sell it in the United States.
In the early 1960s, X was under auction.
X was bought in 1968, by an American tycoon,
Missourian entrepreneur Robert McCulloch—all 10,000
tons of it—and moved it to the desert town of Lake
Havasu City, Arizona
The final price of $2,460,000 was agreed upon and he
became the proud owner of the world’s largest antique.
What is X?

14. London Bridge

15. Q2
The US dropped practice bombs called X Bombs, on 14 targets in Japan that
killed 400 people and injured 1200 before dropping the atomic bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The name comes from a Greek word Pepon.
The word in itself can be associated with pies and stews.
X Bombs was developed as a part of the Y project.
Name X and Y
0.5 +0.5 Points

16. X- Pumpkin Bomb
Y- Manhattan project

17. Q3
_________, is Literally translated as Ponte di Sospiri in Italian
This became famous in part due to Lord Byron who referenced it in his 1812
book Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and translated the name into English :
“I stood here on ________ ; a palace and a prison on each hand.”
As the convicts were being led through ________ from the Court of Justice
to the cold, damp and dark jails, the view from the here was the last view of
the outside world they saw before their imprisonment. The name indicates
the last breath of the prisoners in the free world because, once convicted in
the kingdom of Dogi they never could go back. There is also a legend that if a
couple who visit ________ will have their love will last forever.

18. Bridge of Sighs, Venice

19. Q4
A non fiction book released in 2005
This proves the laws of physics also apply to storytelling. From powerful
events come transformative stories.
Some excerpts
One day I walk into the hallway and tell the nurse, ‘he’s dying’. The nurse
says ‘what did you expect? He’s got 1600 Roentgen. Four hundred is a lethal
dose. He’s a nuclear reactor’.
What's the book about
Name the City and Country associated with this

21. Q5
Guess the City, Country from its manhole covers
A B C D

22. Q5
Guess the City, Country from its manhole covers
Malmo, Sweden Osaka, Japan Prague, Czech Republic Paris, France

24. In the old west a 0.45 cartridge for a
six gun costs 12 cents.
If a cowman was low on cash he
would often give a bullet in exchange
for a drink
This became popularly known as ?

25. SHOT

26. WordFinder!
Round 2

27. Q1
When literally translated in Italian, it means “40 days.” Later it came to
mean the length of time widows were allowed to stay in the home of
their deceased husband. It connects to ship and docking privileges.
What's the word?
1 Point

28. Q2
• Dead as a doornail
• All of a sudden
• In a pickle
• Night owl
• Star crossed lovers
• Off with his head
• Green eyed monster
Their origin being
1 Point

29. Q3
In 1818, an English civil engineer named Sir William Cubitt devised a
machine, X, to reform stubborn and idle convicts
The exertion, combined with poor diets, often led to injury and illness
The monotonous steadiness, and not its severity, constituted its terror.
In England, X persisted until the late 19th century, when it was
abandoned for being too cruel.
However 1960s, X made a triumphant return.
1 Point

30. Q4
This phrase consists of three words (+ ‘and’)
It is the figure of speech used predominantly in United Kingdom and
North America, meaning total or the whole thing, which started back in
the colonial days.
The term was first recorded in the letters of Sir Walter Scott in 1817
An example of how it is used: You sell a business _____
1 Point

31. Q5
Almost 95% of the flags don’t have this colour in them. It was because
it was difficult to produce it back then. A particular species of snail
called tyre was used, 10000 of them to produce 1 gram of it.
The scenario changed in 1856 when an 18 year old chemist named
Willian Henry Perkin accidentally created this dye when he was trying
to find a cure for malaria. He immediately patented it and earned a lot
of money in the process!
1 Point

32. Answer
Please Sheets
ME Give!

33. Answers

34. Q1
When literally translated in Italian, it means “40 days.” Later it came to
mean the length of time widows were allowed to stay in the home of
their deceased husband. It connects to ship and docking privileges.
What's the word?

36. Q2
• Dead as a doornail
• All of a sudden
• In a pickle
• Night owl
• Star crossed lovers
• Off with his head
• Green eyed monster
Their origin being

37. Words and phrases coined by
William Shakespeare

38. Q3
In 1818, an English civil engineer named Sir William Cubitt devised a
machine, X, to reform stubborn and idle convicts
The exertion, combined with poor diets, often led to injury and illness
The monotonous steadiness, and not its severity, constituted its terror.
In England, X persisted until the late 19th century, when it was
abandoned for being too cruel.
However 1960s, X made a triumphant return.

39. Treadmill

40. Q4
This phrase consists of three words (+ ‘and’)
It is the figure of speech used predominantly in United Kingdom and
North America, meaning total or the whole thing, which started back in
the colonial days.
The term was first recorded in the letters of Sir Walter Scott in 1817
An example of how it is used: You sell a business _____
1 Point

41. Lock stock and barrel

42. Q5
Almost 95% of the flags don’t have this colour in them. It was because
it was difficult to produce it back then. A particular species of snail
called tyre was used, 10000 of them to produce 1 gram of it.
The scenario changed in 1856 when an 18 year old chemist named
Willian Henry Perkin accidentally created this dye when he was trying
to find a cure for malaria. He immediately patented it and earned a lot
of money in the process!
1 Point

43. Purple

45. What is that number that appears in every Disney movie?

46. A1 13

47. The idiot
box!
Round 3

48. Q1
This is the story of a man who wakes up to find that all his dreams, hopes,
desires, sensations all atavized into a primal consumptive urge. He is trapped
in a web of a city with no exit but his focus on consumption is so
overwhelming so sensual that he doesn’t even notice.
The poor, who have been long dead inside, find consumption not only
depressive but repulsive. Then they see this guy who is there to remind them
with his consumerism that they will never be know the warmth of having this
power. So they pursue the guy vengeful, loathing every single tantalizing
product they pass by.
But with each psychic excursion the poor recall their purgatorial state with
renewed horror and chase him faster. They eventually fall upon him and he is
ripped into oblivion.
Relate this to something from the world of technology.
1 Point

49. Q2
What are these individual images and What connects them?
1+ (0.34 X 3) =2 Points

50. Q3
Celebrities who appear on this show are usually impersonated, though
some celebrities lend their voices to their characters. Celebrities who
have voiced themselves include Robert Smith and Brent Musburger
Interestingly George Clooney provided the barks for a dog in Season
one.
Identify this show.
1 Point

51. Q4
What recruitment poster is this ?
1 Point

52. Q5
Robots like these used to be frequently seen
in ___________, but they are a rare sight
nowadays. For a minimal amount of money
or so the robot’s handler will allow you to
plug a pair of headphones into its metallic
underpants and listen to _______.
0.5+ 0.5 Points

53. Answer Sheets Please!

54. Answers

55. Q1
This is the story of a man who wakes up to find that all his dreams, hopes,
desires, sensations all atavized into a primal consumptive urge. He is trapped
in a web of a city with no exit but his focus on consumption is so
overwhelming so sensual that he doesn’t even notice.
The poor, who have been long dead inside, find consumption not only
depressive but repulsive. Then they see this guy who is there to remind them
with his consumerism that they will never be know the warmth of having this
power. So they pursue the guy vengeful, loathing every single tantalizing
product they pass by.
But with each psychic excursion the poor recall their purgatorial state with
renewed horror and chase him faster. They eventually fall upon him and he is
ripped into oblivion.
Relate this to something from the world of technology.

56. Pacman

57. Q2
What are these individual images and What connects them?

58. Google April fool pranks
1) Smartbox by Inbox
2) Google Gnome
3) Google play for pets

59. Q3
Celebrities who appear on this show are usually impersonated, though
some celebrities lend their voices to their characters. Celebrities who
have voiced themselves include Robert Smith and Brent Musburger
Interestingly George Clooney provided the barks for a dog in Season
one.
Identify this show.

61. Q4
What recruitment poster is this

62. Navy

63. Q5
Robots like these used to be frequently
seen in ___________, but they are a
rare sight nowadays. For a minimal
amount of money or so the robot’s
handler will allow you to plug a pair of
headphones into its metallic
underpants and listen to _______

64. • Indian Fairs or Melas
• Fortune telling

66. Identify this Hollywood Movie in which Rajinikanth acted in.

67. Dr. Pun-dit
Round 4

68. Q1. A
What is the literary reference that is blanked out?
1 Point

69. Q2
What’s the good pun?
1 Point

70. Q3
The term was coined in 2011 by the blogger
and critic Myles McNutt to describe scenes
in the HBO TV series Game of Thrones in
which characters reveal crucial information
related to plot and character development
during intimate scenes.
George R. R. Martin said this technique is in line with the purpose of
sexuality in the A Song of Ice and Fire books, and acknowledged that
this technique allows for the exposition of motivations and
incentives.
1 Point

71. Q4 Whose Tombstone?
1 Point

72. Q5
Identify this personality using these funny newspaper headlines and
the context
1+1=2 Points

73. Answer
sheets
please

74. Answers

75. Q1
What is the literary reference that is blanked out?

77. Q2
Mortgagefreeman.com.au

78. Q3
The term was coined in 2011 by the blogger
and critic Myles McNutt to describe scenes
in the HBO TV series Game of Thrones in
which characters reveal crucial information
related to plot and character development
during intimate scenes.
George R. R. Martin said this technique is in line with the purpose of
sexuality in the A Song of Ice and Fire books, and acknowledged that
this technique allows for the exposition of motivations and
incentives.

79. S exposition

80. Q4
Whose Tombstone

81. btjunkie

82. Q5
Identify this personality using these funny newspaper headlines and
the context

83. Anthony Weiner, Sexting scandals

85. The iconic green code in The Matrix is basically what?

86. Sushi recipes

87. Hit Stand
Burst!
Round 5

88. Q1
One important legend related to Diwali is that of Narakasura who was
killed by Krishna on Diwali. Which state in India did he rule over?
A) Assam
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) West Bengal

89. Q2
Connect to a Brand
Tweet- Add the Indian emotions to gravity and you get this lovely Diwali ad
A) One Plus
B) Kitkat
C) Nokia

90. Q3
Another legend associated with Diwali is that of x (right) who was given
away as a part of a yagna conducted by his father to y (left). ID both x
and y
A) Aruni and Dhoumya
B) Nachiketa and Yama
C) Daksha and Shiva

91. Q4
Whose ad Campaign is this?
A)Manforce
B)Kama Sutra
C)Durex

92. Q5
A major announcement was made by Adityanath in Ayodhya during
Diwali to name an Airport. What is its name?
A. Jaramarana Varjitaya Ram
B. Purshottam Bhagwan Ram
C. Janardanaya Ram

93. Answers

94. Q1
One important legend related to Diwali is that of Narakasura who was
killed by Krishna on Diwali. Which state in India did he rule over
A) Assam
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) West Bengal

95. Q2
Connect Brand
Tweet- Add the Indian emotions to gravity and you get this lovely
Diwali ad
A) One Plus
B) Kitkat
C) Nokia

96. Q3
Another legend associated with Diwali is that of x (right) who was given
away as a part of a yagna conducted by his father to y (left). ID both x
and y
A) Aruni and Dhoumya
B) Nachiketa and Yama
C) Daksha and Shiva

97. Q4
• Whose ad Campaign is it
A)Manforce
B)Kama Sutra
C)Durex

98. Q5
A major announcement made by Adityanath in Ayodhya during Diwali
to name an Airport. Whats its name?
A. Jaramarana Varjitaya Ram
B. Purshottam Bhagwan Ram
C. Janardanaya Ram

99. Finale
Round 6

100. Q1
 Y, written by X, was banned from many schools and libraries ever since its
first publication, because of the book’s use of a word over two hundred
times. Famous writer Ernest Hemingway once hailed Y as being "the best
book we’ve ever had."
 Publisher NewSouth Books edited a new version of Xs Y that wont be
bogged down with what X was trying to say about racism, that replaces the
controversial word.
 The word Robots was used instead of ____. Statistically, people prefer
robots to the original word.
 Critics ask ‘But why not vampires?’, answer being ‘Replacing the word with
vampire would be silly. Robots have a long history in literature and popular
culture of being used as a metaphor for ____ and oppression’.
X, Y, the word?
1+1+1=3 Points

101. Q2
In one of his rallies during the campaign
for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections
in 2017, Prime Minister Modi highlighted
the eradication of criminal gangs in the
state as one of the major issues of
concern that would be addressed if
elected. He promised to get rid of them
in a stealthy manner when they least
expect it, referencing a certain
cliffhanger from popular culture- making
it a comment that garnered much
interest in the media for its choice of
analogy.
What exactly was he referring to?
 One of records from the previous
reference was broken by this
upcoming movie (Amazon Obhijaan).
What was this record, that was
broken in a football field?
1+1 = 2 points

102. Q3
From their first letters, Form words
• Names of Places: 2 points each
• 6 or 7 letter words: 1 points each
• 5 letter words: 0.5 point each
• No points for below 5 letters
Part 1- 0.25 X 8 = 2 points
Part 2- Min: 0 points
Max-As much as you score
Following are 8 monuments with
their minimalistic representations.
Identify them
*No repeating letters *No points for words made with wrong letters

103. Q3

104. Answers

105. Q1
 Y, written by X, was banned from many schools and libraries ever since its
first publication, because of the book’s use of a word over two hundred
times. Famous writer Ernest Hemingway once hailed Y as being "the best
book we’ve ever had."
 Publisher NewSouth Books edited a new version of Xs Y that wont be
bogged down with what X was trying to say about racism, that replaces the
controversial word.
 The word Robots was used instead of ____. Statistically, people prefer
robots to the original word.
 Critics ask ‘But why not vampires?’, answer being ‘Replacing the word with
vampire would be silly. Robots have a long history in literature and popular
culture of being used as a metaphor for ____ and oppression’.
X, Y, the word?
1+1+1=3 Points

106. Q1

107. Q2
In one of his rallies during the campaign
for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections
in 2017, Prime Minister Modi highlighted
the eradication of criminal gangs in the
state as one of the major issues of concern
that would be addressed if elected. He
promised to get rid of them in a stealthy
manner when they least expect it,
referencing a certain cliffhanger from
popular culture- making it a comment that
garnered much interest in the media for its
choice of analogy.
What exactly was he referring to?
One of records from the previous
reference was broken by this upcoming
movie (Amazon Obhijaan). What was
this record, that was broken in a football
field?
1+1 = 2 points

108. Kattappa Killing Bahubali
Amazon Obhijaan’s official poster made a record of being biggest film
poster of history in India (60,800 sq ft). It broke the previous record of
Bahubali's poster and achieved Guinness book world record.

109. Q3
From their first letters, Form words
• Names of Places: 2 points each
• 6 or 7 letter words: 1 points each
• 5 letter words: 0.5 point each
• No points for below 5 letters
Part 1- 0.25 X 8 = 2 points
Part 2- Min: 0 points
Max-As much as you score
Following are 8 monuments with
their minimalistic representations.
Identify them
*No repeating letters *No points for words made with wrong letters

110. Q3

111. Q3
Big Ben, London Louvre, Paris Tower Bridge, London
Petra, JordanAngkor Wat, Cambodia Yosemite,CaliforniaColosseum, Rome
Itsukushima Shrine, Japan

112. Words from - IBLTCAYP
Places (2 pts) 7 an 6 letter words (1 Pt) 5 letter words (0.5 Pt)
Libya
Italy
Bali
Baltic
Cali
Typical
Atypic
Placit
Platic
Ality Aptly Bialy
Cital Clapt Clipt
Laity Lytic Patly
Pibal Pical Plait
Platy Plica Pylic
Tabic Taily Tical
Typal Typic

113. Counting Scores

115. Extra Questions

116. Q1 Mix and Match
1. This iconic cocktail was invented when Winston Churchill’s mother
lady Randolp Churchill as she threw a banquet in New York in honour
of the presidential candidate.
2. Giuseppe Cipriani, founder of Venice's beloved Harry's Bar, started
mixing up the fruity tipples sometime between 1934 and 1948. The
pink drink reminded him of the color of a saint's toga in a painting by
Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni______, so he named his
concoction in honor of the painter.
3. The premise of the 19th century prank was that a gent would
encounter a friend and tell him that a fellow by the name of ____
had been saying hurtful and slanderous things about him. The friend
would rush to the bar, where the bartender was in on the joke, and
be told that ___ had moved on to another bar across town, where
the futile pursuit would continue. The hoax spread across the
country, and pretty soon, the theory goes, the drink followed, with
the bartenders handing over the gin cocktail to the gentleman rather
than playing along

117. Q1
● Manhattan
● Belini
● Tom Collins